Guilbert and Betelle

Guilbert and Betelle was an architecture firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the East Coast of the United States, with an emphasis on the "Collegiate Gothic" style.

Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools, including Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut and the Radburn School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable buildings for which the firm was responsible include the Essex County Hall of Records and the Essex Club (now home of the New Jersey Historical Society).^[1]

Structures

The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:

Connecticut

Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut) (NRHP-listed)
Greenwich:

Cos Cob School, c. 1916

Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925

New Britain:

State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922

Delaware

Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921

William P. Bancroft School, c.1928

Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c. 1932

Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey

New Jersey

East Orange:

East Orange High School (demolished), c. 1911

Jersey City:

State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930

Newark:

Newark Central High School, c. 1912

Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923

Cleveland School, c. 1913

East Side High School, c. 1911

The Essex Club (New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926 (NRHP-listed)

Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931

Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930

Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926

Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910

Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925

Newark Normal School, c. 1913 (currently Technology High School)

Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Arts, c. 1931

Ridge Street School, c. 1913

Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916

South Side High School, c. 1913 (currently Malcolm X Shabazz High School)

Weequahic High School, c. 1932 (NRHP-listed)

West Side High School, c. 1926

South Orange and Maplewood:

Clinton Elementary, c. 1929

Columbia High School, c. 1927

First Street School, c. 1924

Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924

Montrose Elementary, c. 1924

Maplewood Junior High, c.1930

Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931

Marshall Elementary, c.1922

South Mountain Elementary, c.1929

Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924

Summit:

Franklin Elementary

Jefferson Elementary

Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923

Washington Elementary, c. 1931

Vineland:

Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927

Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927

West Orange

West Orange High School (Seton Hall Preparatory School)

New York

Bronxville

The Bronxville School, c. 1930

Great Neck

Great Neck High School, c. 1926

New Rochelle

New Rochelle High School, c. 1926

Tarrytown

Washington Irving School, c. 1925

Pennsylvania

Williamsport:

Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927

Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925

NRHP-listed

Duplicative to the above, the buildings designed by these architects which survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) are:

Essex Club, Address Restricted Newark NJ Guilbert & Betelle^[2]
Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut), 449 Pemberwick Rd. Greenwich CT Betelle, James Oscar^[2]
Iron Hill School No. 112C, 1335 Old Baltimore Pike, Pencader Hundred Newark DE Betelle, James Oscar^[2]
Charles B. Lore Elementary School, Fourth St. and Woodlawn Ave. Wilmington DE Guilbert and Betelle^[2]
One or more buildings in Military Park (Newark) Commons Historic District, Roughly bounded by Washington Pl., McCarter Hwy, E. Park St. and Raymond Blvd. Newark NJ Guilbert and Betelle^[2]
New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, N of Burlington Rd., W of I-295 Bordentown NJ Guilbert & Betelle^[2]
Public School No. 111-C, DE 7 Christiana DE Betelle, James O.^[2]
Ross Point School, Road 448 near Jct. with Road 62 Laurel DE Guilbert and Betelle^[2]
Vineland High School, 61 W. Landis Ave. Vineland NJ Betelle, J.O.^[2]

External links

"James Betelle, Where Are You?" - biographical and professional history of Betelle.

References

^ Architecture Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Vineland Public Schools. Accessed September 13, 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[Vineland-1] Architecture Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Vineland Public Schools. Accessed September 13, 2008.

[nris-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

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