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James Renwick, Jr. & Co

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Firm history:

  • 1842: Practice established by James Renwick Jr., following completion of the Croton Aqueduct.
  • 185-: Joined by Richard T. Auchmuty and Joseph Sands as drafters.
  • 1858: Richard T. Auchmuty admitted to partnership, Renwick & Auchmuty formed.
  • 1859: Sands admitted to partnership, firm reorganized as Renwick, Auchmuty & Sands.
  • 1861: Auchmuty withdraws from partnership, firm reorganized as Renwick & Sands.
  • 1875: Joined by J. Lawrence Aspinwall as drafter.
  • 1878: Joined by William H. Russell as drafter.
  • 1879: Sands dies, firm reorganized as private practice.
  • 1883: Aspinwall and Russell admitted to partnership, Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell formed.
  • 1885: Joined by William W. Renwick as drafter.
  • 1887: Joined by Walter T. Owen as drafter.
  • 1890: Renwick admitted to junior partnership, firm name unchanged.
  • 1892: Russell withdraws from partnership, firm reorganized as Renwick, Aspinwall & Renwick.
  • 1895: James Renwick Jr. dies, firm reorganized as Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen.
  • 1896: Joined by Fitz-Henry Faye Tucker as drafter.
  • 1899: William W. Renwick withdraws from partnership, firm name unchanged.
  • 1902: Owen dies, firm name unchanged.
  • 1903: Tucker admitted to partnership, firm name unchanged.
  • 1905: Firm reorganized as Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker.
  • 1915: Joined by Shirley R. Guard as draftsman.
  • 1925: Tucker withdraws from partnership, Guard admitted to partnership, firm reorganized as Renwick, Aspinwall & Guard.
  • 1936: Aspinwall dies, firm name unchanged.
  • 1943: Guard dies, firm dissolved.[1]

Partners:

  • James Renwick Jr., 1843-1895
  • Richard T. Auchmuty, 1858-1861
  • Joseph Sands, 1859-1879
  • J. Lawrence Aspinwall, 1883-1936
  • William H. Russell, 1883-1892
  • William W. Renwick, 1890-1899
  • Walter T. Owen, 1895-1902
  • Fitz-Henry Faye Tucker, 1903-1925
  • Shirley R. Guard, 1925-1943

Joseph Sands was born December 2, 1830 in New York City to Ferdinand Sands and Susan (Bard) Sands. In 1855 he married Charlotte Brion Foulke of New York City. They had two daughters and one son. He died December 16, 1879 in New York City.[2]

James Renwick Jr., 1842-1858

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Year Building Address City State Notes Image Reference
1843 Grace Episcopal Church 800 Broadway New York New York [3]
1846 Calvary Episcopal Church 61 Gramercy Park N New York New York [4]
1846 Presbyterian Church of the Puritans 15 Union Sq W New York New York Demolished in 1868. [5]
1846 Rectory,
Grace Episcopal Church		 804 Broadway New York New York [3]
1846 Smithsonian Institution Building 1000 Jefferson Dr SW Washington District of Columbia [5]
1847 Trinity Episcopal Church 23-25 Trinity Pl Albany New York Demolished in 2011. [6]
1848 First Presbyterian Church 71 S Franklin St Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Converted into the Osterhout Free Library in 1887. [7]
1848 Free Academy Building Lexington Ave and E 23rd St New York New York The Free Academy of the City of New York was the predecessor to the City College of New York. This building demolished in 1928. [8]
1849 Second Presbyterian Church Wabash Ave and Washington St Chicago Illinois Destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [9]
1850 Chapel,
Oak Hill Cemetery		 30th and R Sts NW Georgetown District of Columbia [10]
1850 Tontine Building 82 Wall St New York New York Demolished in 1901.
1850 Trinity Episcopal Church 3rd and C Sts NW Washington District of Columbia Demolished in 1936. [11]
1851 Fredericksburg City Courthouse 815 Princess Anne St Fredericksburg Virginia [12]
1851 James Renwick Sr. House 21 Fifth Ave New York New York Built for the architect's father, and later occupied by Mark Twain. Demolished in 1954. [13]
1851 Reformed Church of Saugerties 173 Main St Saugerties New York [6]
1852 Cornelius T. Longstreet House Irving Ave Syracuse New York Also known as Yates Castle for a later owner. Demolshed in 1954. [14]
1853 Clinton Avenue Congregational Church 350 Clinton Ave Brooklyn New York Demolished in 1923. [15]
1853 R. C. Church of St. Stephen the Martyr 149 E 28th St New York New York Now known as Church of Our Lady of the Scapular-St. Stephen. [16]
1853 St. Anne Episcopal Church 23 Church St Calais Maine [17]
1853 St. Denis Hotel 799 Broadway New York New York Survived in a heavily altered state until its demolition in 2019.[18] [19]
1854 LaFarge House 673 Broadway New York New York Demolished. [20]
1854 New York Smallpox Hospital Roosevelt Island New York New York Abandoned and known as the Renwick Ruin. [21]
1855 Bank of the State of New York Building 35 William St New York New York Demolished in 1920.[22] [20]
1857 Second Congregational Church S Church and Chestnut Sts Rockford Illinois Demolished. [23]
1858 R. C. Cathedral of St. Patrick 460 Madison Ave New York New York Designed in association with William Rodrigue. [24]
1843 Fountain Bowling Green New York New York Demolished.
1848 South Reformed Dutch Church Fifth Ave and 21st St New York New York
1850 Chapel,
Grace Episcopal Church		 Madison Ave and E 28th St New York New York Reestablished as the Church of the Incarnation in 1852. Demolished.
1863 urch of the Covenant Park Ave and E 35th St New York New York Reestablished as the Church of the Incarnation in 1852. Demolished.
1869 Ascension Memorial Episcopal Church 31 County St Ipswich Massachusetts [25]
1869 First Presbyterian Church 201 N Randolph Ave Aufaula Alabama

Renwick & Auchmuty, 1858-1859

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Year Building Address City State Notes Image Reference
1858 City Hospital Roosevelt Island New York New York Demolished in 1994. [26]
1859 Chancery Building 266 Mulberry St New York New York [27]
1859 Corcoran Gallery of Art 1661 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington District of Columbia Now the Renwick Gallery.
1859 St. Mary's Episcopal Church 230 Classon Ave Brooklyn New York Auchmuty, designer. [28]

Renwick, Auchmuty & Sands, 1859-1861

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Year Building Address City State Notes Image Reference
1860 Albemarle Hotel 10 Madison Sq W New York New York Demolished. [29]
1860 All Souls Episcopal Church 139 W 48th St New York New York Demolished c.1911. [30]
1860 Case Hall 201 Superior Ave NE Cleveland Ohio Demolished. [29]
1861 Main Building Vassar College Poughkeepsie New York [31]

Renwick & Sands, 1861-1879

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Year Building Address City State Notes Image Reference
1862 Episcopal Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour 515 2nd Ave NW Faribault Minnesota [32]
1863 Episcopal Church of St. Barnabas 15 N Broadway Irvington New York [33]
1863 Greyston
William E. Dodge House		 690 W 247th St Riverdale New York [3]
1863 Riverdale Presbyterian Church 4765 Henry Hudson Pkwy Riverdale New York [3]
1864 Christ Episcopal Church (Iglesia Episcopal de Cristo) Paseo Washington Colón Panama Also known as Christ Church by the Sea. [34]
1865 Harbor Lawn
Alexander Perry and Charles Bogart House		 131 Ferry Rd Bristol Rhode Island Acquired by Renwick in 1875. [35]
1867 St. Cloud Hotel 1466 Broadway New York New York Demolished in 1901 to build the new Knickerbocker Hotel.[36] [37]
1868 Booth's Theatre W 23rd St and Sixth Ave New York New York Converted into a department store in 1883 and demolished in 1965. [38]
1868 Building 34 Howard St New York New York [3]
1868 New York Idiot Asylum Randall's Island New York New York Demolished. [37]
1868 New York Inebriate Asylum Ward's Island New York New York Demolished. [37]
1868 R. C. Orphan Asylum, Girls' Department Park and Madison Aves and E 51st and E 52nd Sts New York New York Demolished. [37]
1869 Episcopal Church of the Holy Sepulchre 119 E 74th St New York New York Now known as the Episcopal Church of the Ressurection. [39]
1869 Irvington Presbyterian Church 21 N Broadway Irvington New York
1869 St. Ann Episcopal Church 131 Clinton St Brooklyn New York Now owned by the Packer Collegiate Institute.
1869 St. James Episcopal Church 153 E 72nd St New York New York Burned in 1927. [40]
1869 Y. M. C. A. Building 304 Park Ave S New York New York Demolished in 1903. [41]
1870 First Presbyterian Church 136 Capitol Ave Harford Connecticut [42]
1871 R. C. Church of St. John the Baptist 627 McKinley Ave NW Canton Ohio [43]
1872 Second Presbyterian Church 1936 S Michigan Ave Chicago Illinois [44]
1872 St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church Madison Ave and E 44th St New York New York Demolished. [45]
1873 Seven Oaks
Augustus O. Bourne House		 136 Hope St Bristol Rhode Island [46]
1873 St. John Episcopal Church 768 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport Connecticut [47]
1875 Corcoran Office Building 515 15th St NW Washington District of Columbia Demolished.

Renwick, Aspinwall & Russell, 1883-1892

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=Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker, 1905-1925

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Later

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References

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  1. ^ "Shirley R. Guard" in New York Times, November 9, 1943, 21.
  2. ^ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pierre_Fauconnier_and_His_Descendants/s45JAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
  3. ^ a b c d e New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Guide to New York City Landmarks, ed. Matthew A. Postal (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009)
  4. ^ http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/CalvaryEpis.html
  5. ^ a b Kathleen Curran, The Romanesque Revival (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003)
  6. ^ a b Cornelia Brooke Gilder, "James Renwick Jr.," Architects in Albany, ed. Diana S. Waite (Albany, NY: Mount Ida Press, 2009): 7.
  7. ^ River Street Historic District NRHP Nomination (1985)
  8. ^ Sandra Shoiock Roff, Anthony M. Cucchiara and Barbara J. Dunlap, From the Free Academy to CUNY: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847-1997 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000): 5.
  9. ^ American Architect and Building News, January 27 1877, 30.
  10. ^ G. Martin Moeller Jr., AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D. C. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 239.
  11. ^ John Kelly, "James Renwick’s Trinity Episcopal Church was a striking place of worship," Washington Post, January 4 2014.
  12. ^ Richard Guy Wilson, Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
  13. ^ http://gvshp.org/blog/2013/04/01/then-now-a-home-fit-for-fifth-avenue-and-mark-twain/
  14. ^ Evamaria Hardin, Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods (Syracuse, NY: Onondaga Historical Association and Syracuse University Press, 1993): 240.
  15. ^ Terri Cook, Sacred Havens of Brooklyn: Spiritual Places and Peaceful Grounds (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013)
  16. ^ http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/OurLadyScapularStStephen.html
  17. ^ St. Anne's Episcopal Church NRHP Nomination (1982)
  18. ^ https://evgrieve.com/2019/03/theres-not-much-left-of-former-st-denis.html
  19. ^ http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2010/12/st-denis-hotel-broadway-and-east-11th.html
  20. ^ a b Sarah Bradford Landau and Carl W. Condit, Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996)
  21. ^ Smallpox Hospital NRHP Nomination (1972)
  22. ^ Gilbert Canterbury, "Steel Lumber Intact After 60 Years," American Builder, August 1920, 82.
  23. ^ Charles A. Church, History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois (1900)
  24. ^ Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  25. ^ About Ascension
  26. ^ Kroessler, Jeffrey A. New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis. 2002.
  27. ^ Miller, Tom. "Renwick's 1859 Chancery Bldg. -- No. 266 Mulberry Street". http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/. 13 May 2014.
  28. ^ White, Norval and Elliot Willensky. AIA Guide to New York City. 2010.
  29. ^ a b "Building Operations in New York". Building News 23 March 1860: 228.
  30. ^ Whittaker, Thomas. Memorial of Saint Mark's Church in the Bowery. 1899.
  31. ^ Massachusetts Teacher Aug. 1861: 289. Boston.
  32. ^ Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour NRHP Nomination (1979)
  33. ^ Church of St. Barnabas NRHP Nomination (2000)
  34. ^ Ruth C. Stuhl, "One-Dollar Church," Living Church, January 6 1963, 7-8.
  35. ^ Historic and Architectural Resources of Bristol, Rhode Island (Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1990): 66-67.
  36. ^ Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, February 16 1901, 287.
  37. ^ a b c d John W. Kennion, The Architects' and Builders' Guide (New York: Fitzpatrick & Hunter, 1868)
  38. ^ The Cambridge History of American Theatre, ed. Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, vol. 1. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
  39. ^ Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, March 27 1869, 12.
  40. ^ http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/StJamesEpis.html
  41. ^ http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/YMCA_23rdSt.html
  42. ^ http://historicbuildingsct.com/first-presbyterian-church-hartford-1870/
  43. ^ St. John's Catholic Church NRHP Nomination (1975)
  44. ^ Second Presbyterian Church NRHP Nomination (1974)
  45. ^ "St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church," Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, October 19 1872, 1.
  46. ^ Historic and Architectural Resources of Bristol, Rhode Island (Providence, RI: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1990): 79.
  47. ^ St. John's Episcopal Church NRHP Nomination (1984)
  48. ^ https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Architect_and_Building_News/dQFaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Renwick+and+Sands%22+architect+1877&pg=PA259&printsec=frontcover
  49. ^ https://archive.org/details/sim_american-architect-and-architecture_1878-06-29_3_131/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22Renwick++Sands%22
  50. ^ https://archive.org/details/sim_american-architect-and-architecture_1879-06-28_5_183/page/n273/mode/2up?q=%22Renwick++Sands%22&view=theater
  51. ^ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Terra_cotta_in_Architecture/ohNNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
  52. ^ Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 31, no. 794 (June 2, 1883): 402.
  53. ^ Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 36, no. 908 (August 8, 1885): 886.
  54. ^ Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club NRHP Registration Form (1991)
  55. ^ St. Mary's Episcopal Church NRHP Registration Form (1973)
  56. ^ Dollar Savings Bank NRHP Registration Form (2011)
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