Henry Ives Cobb

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The Newberry Library, Washington Square Park, Chicago

Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931) was an architect from the United States. Based in Chicago in the last decades of the 19th century, he was known for his designs in the Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles.

Biography

Cobb was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb. Cobb studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year then transferred to Harvard University where he graduated in 1881 with an engineering degree. After graduating, Cobb worked at the Boston architectural firm Peabody & Stearns before moving to Chicago in 1882.<ref>Blumberg, N.. "Henry Ives Cobb." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 15, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Ives-Cobb .</ref>

In Chicago, Cobb partnered with Charles Sumner Frost and formed Cobb and Frost. They designed the Palmer Mansion (demolished) on Lake Shore Drive; the Chicago Varnish Company Building—listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark; the Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 5749 North Kenmore Avenue—also on the National Register of Historic Places; the Chicago Federal Building (demolished); the Newberry Library; the Fisheries Building (demolished) at the World's Columbian Exposition; and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago.<ref name="history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="condit">Template:Cite book</ref> Elsewhere, he designed the Sinclair Oil Building (today the Liberty Tower), a Perpendicular-style skyscraper in downtown Manhattan, that was converted to residences in 1980;<ref name="plaque"/> the Olive Building in St. Louis and co-designed the King Edward Hotel in Toronto. Cobb moved to Washington, D.C., in 1897 to escape the Chicago grime, which damaged his cherished art collection.<ref name="wolner">Template:Cite book</ref> Cobb is responsible for The University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI, constructed from 1895 to 1897, with its Greco-Roman terra-cotta architectural detail.

Family

Henry Ives Cobb's grandmother, Augusta Adams Cobb, controversially abandoned her husband, Henry Cobb, and five of her seven children in 1843, and married Brigham Young as a plural wife.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Cobb and wife Emma Martin Smith had 10 children, seven of whom survived into adulthood. The children were: architect and author Henry Ives Cobb, Jr. (1883–1974), Cleveland Cobb (1884–?), Leonore Cobb (1885–?), Candler Cobb (c. 1887–?), Elliot Cobb (1888–?), Priscilla Cobb (1890–91), Alice Cobb (1892–93), Boughton Cobb (1894–1974), Russell Cobb (1897–?), and Emerson Cobb, (1902–10).<ref name=obit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=greeley>Template:Cite book</ref>

Works

Building	Location	Dates	Notes	Image
Union Club of Chicago	Washington Place at Dearborn Street	1881	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Union Club of Chicago.png
Palmer Mansion	1350 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago	1885	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Potter Palmer Mansion old.jpg
Harriet F. Rees House	2110 S. Prairie Avenue Chicago	1888	Designed by Cobb & Frost.	File:Harriet F Rees House Chicago IL.jpg
Tippecanoe Place	620 West Washington Avenue South Bend, Indiana	1889	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark.	File:South-bend-indiana-tippecanoe-place.jpg
Chicago Athletic Association	12 South Michigan Avenue Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Chicago Athletic Association Building.JPG
Garfield Building	1965 E. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:GarfieldCLE.jpg
Newberry Library	60 West Walton Street Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and William Poole	File:Washington Square Park & Newberry Library.JPG
St. Cecilia Music Center	24 Ransom NE Grand Rapids, Michigan	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:St. Cecilia Music Center.jpg
Chicago Varnish Company Building	33 West Kinzie Street Chicago	1895	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Chicago Varnish Company Building.JPG
Olive Building	721 Olive Street St. Louis	1896	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb; 1902 addition by Mauran, Russel & Garden<ref name="built">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	File:St. Louis - Chemical Bldg.JPG
Former Chicago Historical Society Building	632 North Dearborn Street Chicago	1896	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Chicago Historical Society, 632 North Dearborn Street, Chicago (Cook County, Illinois).jpg
Yerkes Observatory	373 W. Geneva Street Williams Bay, Wisconsin	1897	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay Wisconsin, c. 1900.jpg
Woodward & Lothrop Store	1025 F Street NW Washington, D.C.	1897	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb; subsequent expansions 1902-1927<ref name="biz">Template:Cite news</ref>	File:Woodward & Lothrop, circa 1910s - exterior.jpg
The Kip-Riker Mansion	432 Scotland Road South Orange, New Jersey	1903	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb for Ira A. Kip, Jr. Presently Temple Sharey Tefilo Israel<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Marcia Worth, September 16, 2011, South Orange Patch (Open Post)</ref>	File:Temple Sharey Tefilo Israel.JPG
Chicago Federal Building	Dearborn and Adams Streets Chicago	1905	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:Chicago Federal Court, 1961.jpg
Liberty Tower	55 Liberty Street New York City	1909	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb	File:55-liberty.jpg
Cort Theatre	64 Ellis Street San Francisco	1911	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	File:Cort Theatre, Billboard, September 30, 1911.png
King Edward Hotel	37 King Street East Toronto	1920-1922	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb: 18-story tower<ref name="plaque">Template:Cite press release</ref>	File:KINGEDDIETORONTO.JPG

See also

• Architecture of Chicago
• Cobb and Frost

References

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External links

• Henry Ives Cobb papers, ca. 1907-1922. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives Template:Webarchive, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.