Green and Wicks

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Green & Wicks
Company type Private company
Industry Architecture
Founded1884
Founder Edward Brodhead Green
William Sydney Wicks
Defunct1974
Headquarters Buffalo, New York

Green & Wicks was an architectural firm of Buffalo, New York.

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Practice

Edward Brodhead Green was an 1878 graduate of Cornell University's College of Architecture, and designed a number of buildings which made up Cornell's Agriculture Quadrangle, including Bailey Hall (1912), Caldwell Hall (1913), the Computing and Communications Center (1912, originally known as Comstock Hall), Fernow Hall (1915), and the original Roberts Hall (1906, demolished 1990).

Green's best-known commissions were designed with his partner William Sydney Wicks (1854–1917), as Green & Wicks. The firm's chronology is: [1]

The firm's records survive in the library collections of the Buffalo History Museum. [3]

A number of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [4] [5]

Projects

Bailey Hall, Cornell University (1912) Cornell Bailey Hall March09.jpg
Bailey Hall, Cornell University (1912)

Notable works of the Green & Wicks architectural firm include:

Notable works of the E.B. Green and Sons architectural firm include:

Notable works of the Green & James architectural firm include:

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References

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  2. James, Meadows & Howard Records
  3. "Green & Wicks Bibliography" . Retrieved 2010-11-19.
  4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  5. Steffensen-Bruce, Ingrid A. (1998). Marble Palaces, Temples of Art: Art Museums, Architecture, and American Culture, 1890–1930. Bucknell University Press. p. 72. ISBN   9780838753514 . Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  6. "Crosby Hall (CROSBY) – South Campus, Academic Sector". University at Buffalo. Retrieved 1 November 2013.