Adams & Woodbridge

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Adams and Woodbridge was an American architectural firm in the mid-twentieth-century New York City, established in 1945 by Lewis Greenleaf Adams, AIA, and Frederick James Woodbridge, FAIA, and disestablished in 1974 after the latter's death. It was the successor to the firms Evans, Moore & Woodbridge , Malmfeldt, Adams & Prentice , Adams & Prentice (fl. 1929–1941), and Malmfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge [1] [2]

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Adams & Woodbridge estimated in 1953 that their firm and its predecessors had been responsible for “about 100 residences and alterations.” [2]

Works as Adams & Woodbridge (1945-1974)

Works responsible by either the various firms of Adams or Woodbridge

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  1. 1 2 3 "Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-04-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) April 30, 1946.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Questionnaire for Architects’ Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2011-04-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) February 27, 1953.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lewis Greenleaf Adams Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine " American Architects Directory , Third Edition (New York City: R.R. Bowker LLC, 1970), p.5.
  4. 1 2 "Campus Building and Renovation Chronology".

Adams & Woodbridge works.Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.