Babb, Cook & Willard was a New York City-based

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established in 1884 that designed many important houses and commercial buildings. The principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb (1836–1915), Walter Cook (1843–1916), and Daniel W. Willard. Willard left the firm in 1908, and was replaced by Winthrop A. Welch. The firm was subsequently renamed Babb, Cook and Welch until 1912, when it became Cook and Welch.

Walter Cook

Partner Walter Cook was born in New York and graduated from

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in 1869. He further studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the

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in Paris. He returned to New York in 1877 and worked there as an architect until he died on March 25, 1916, aged 70.

Works

Andrew Carnegie Mansion The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is a historic house located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Andrew Carnegie moved into his newly completed mansion in late 1902 and lived there unti ...

, 2 East 91st Street, New York City, designed to be "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York" *

New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal Montreal's New York Life Insurance Building (also known as the Quebec Bank Building) is an office building at Place d'Armes in what is now known as Old Montreal, erected in 1887-1889. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest commercial ...

, which was the tallest building in the province of Quebec from 1888 to 1908 *"The Clearing", a Colonial Revival estate house built around 1889 for John Hornor Wisner, a merchant in the China trade, at what is now the Reeves-Reed Arboretum * De Vinne Press Building, built 1885–1886, listed on the

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*About six of 39 Carnegie libraries built in New York City *

Frederick B. Pratt House The Caroline Ladd Pratt House is a mansion at 229 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. It was formerly known as the Frederic B. Pratt House, as it was built for Frederic B. Pratt, him as the family home with his wife Caroline Ladd Pratt. Com ...

, in Brooklyn, New York, completed in 1898 in a neo-Georgian style * Charles Atwater House at 321 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, a significant Shingle style house in the Whitney Avenue Historic District *William S. Ingraham House in the Federal Hill Historic District of Bristol, Connecticut. The 25-room Shingle-Style home was built in 1890 and heated by pipes connected to the E. Ingraham Company *

Welwyn Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to distinguish it from the much newer and larger ...

, a Georgian-style mansion built in 1906 in

Glen Cove, New York Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. At the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 28,365 as of the 2020 census. The city was considered part of the early 20th century G ...

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