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Kimball & Thompson

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Kimball & Thompson was the name of an architectural partnership made up of Francis H. Kimball and G. Kramer Thompson from 1892 to 1898. They were early proponents of steel framed curtain-walled skyscrapers. They built several buildings in Manhattan.

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The Empire Building at 71 Broadway^[1]
26 Broadway, the Manhattan Life Insurance Building
The Rhinelander Mansion^[2]
Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Residence, Madison Avenue and 72nd Street, (1898), design credited to Kimball & Thompson "but a photograph of the mansion published at or near the end of construction included the notation that it was designed by Alexander Mackintosh, an obscure local practitioner."^[3]
A minor commission was for the carriage housing for B. Altman's horse-drawn delivery wagons (1896), which survives on West 18th Street, with completely refitted interiors^[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/empirebldg.pdf|title=Landmarks Preservation: EMPIRE BUILDING|date=June 25, 1996|publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission|accessdate=2009-04-04}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=101534|title=Emporis: Kimball and Thompson|publisher=Emporis.com|accessdate=2009-04-04}}
3. ^Christopher Gray, "Streetscapes: From a Mysterious Mansion to a Ralph Lauren Store", New York Times, 7 Oct 2010.
4. ^Plaque on building

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