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Babb, Cook & Willard

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Walter Cook
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Babb, Cook & Willard was a New York City-based architectural firm established in 1884 that designed many important homes and commercial buildings. The principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb (1836–1915), Walter Cook (1843–1916), and Daniel W. Willard.^[1] 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.^[2]

Walter Cook

Partner Walter Cook was born in New York and graduated from Harvard College in 1869.^[3] He further studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[3] He returned to New York in 1877 and worked there as an architect until he died on March 25, 1916, aged 70.^[3]

Works

Andrew Carnegie Mansion, 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, 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 National Register of Historic Places
About six of 39 Carnegie libraries built in New York City
Frederick B. Pratt House, 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^[1]

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Notes

1. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ct0056 |title=Atwater-Ciampolini House, 321 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT |author=Woodrow W. Wilkins and Jonathan B. Conant |date=July 27, 1964 |website=Historic American Buildings Survey |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C.}}
2. ^{{LCAuth|no2014012881|Babb, Cook & Welch}}
3. ^¹²{{cite news|title=Obituary: Walter Cook|url=https://archive.org/stream/jstor-25588851/25588851#page/n1/mode/2up|accessdate=28 April 2018|publisher=American Art News|date=1 April 1916|page=2}}

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