Trowbridge & Livingston
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Trowbridge & Livingston was an architectural practice based in New York City in the early 20th century. The firm's partners were Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge (1862-1925) and Goodhue Livingston (1867-1951).
Trowbridge's father was a military engineer, who oversaw construction of Fort Totten Battery, and repairs to Fort Schuyler during the American Civil War. After the War, he became professor of dynamic engineering at Yale.
Trowbridge himself studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. On graduating in 1883, he attended Columbia University, and later studied abroad at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. On his return to New York, he entered the office of George B. Post. Goodhue Livingston received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia during the same period Trowbridge was at the school. In 1894, Trowbridge, Livingston and Stockton B. Colt formed a partnership that lasted until 1897 when Colt left, and the firm became Trowbridge & Livingston.
The firm designed several notable public and commercial buildings in the city. Among the most famous are the neo-baroque St.Regis-Sheraton Hotel (1904) on Fifth Avenue; and the former B. Altman Department Store (1905), also on Fifth Avenue; the 37 storey Bankers Trust Company Building (1912) at 16 Wall Street; and the J. P. Morgan Building (1913), across the road at 23 Wall Street.
Other projects included:
- Engine Company 7, Ladder Company 1, FDNY (1905), 100 Duane Street;
- Six Times Square (1906);
- Extension to the New York Stock Exchange (1923);
- 44 Wall Street (1927);
- Gulf Building (1932), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in association with E. P. Mellon;
- The Hayden Planetarium (1935) at the American Museum of Natural History, West 81st Street and Central Park West.
- Oregon State Capitol (1936-38) in Salem , in association with Francis Keally.
