George Edward Harney

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St. Mary's Episcopal Church, East Providence, RI. 1872
Moffat Library, Washingtonville, NY. 1887.
Mercantile Library Building, New York, NY. 1890

George Edward Harney (1840–1924) was a late-19th-century American architect based in New York City.[1]

Biography[]

George Edward Harney was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1840.[2] He received his early training in the office of local engineer Alonzo Lewis. In 1863 he relocated to Cold Spring, New York, with an office in Newburgh, just upriver. He moved again to New York City in 1873. In 1874 he partnered with William I. Paulding in Harney & Paulding, the firm only lasting for that year.[3] Soon after 1890 Harney took William S. Purdy as a partner in the firm of Harney & Purdy.[4] They remained associated until at least 1910.[5]

Harney died in New York City on November 12, 1924.[6]

Selected architectural works[]

  • Cold Spring Cemetery Gatehouse, Nelsonville, NY (1863)
  • Robert Parker Parrott House, "Plumbush," Cold Spring, NY (1865)[7]
  • Transepts and extension, Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh, NY (1867–68)
  • Episcopal Church of St. Mary-in-the-Highlands, Cold Spring, NY (1867–68)[8]
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wallingford, CT (1868–69)
  • Unitarian Church of Our Father, Newburgh, NY (1869–70)
  • Remodel and outbuildings, Harriet Pardee Musgrave House, New Windsor, NY (1871)
  • St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 83 Warren Ave., East Providence, RI (1872)[9]
  • Brooks Brothers Store, 670 Broadway (1873–74)[10]
  • Frederick W. Stevens House, 2 W. 57th St., New York, NY (1875–76) - Demolished.[11]
  • Stevens Building, 18 Wall St., New York, NY (1879) - Occupied part of the site of 14 Wall Street.[12]
  • Barthold Schlesinger House, "Southwood," 278 Warren St., Brookline, MA (1880–82)[13]
  • Luther Kountze House, "Delbarton," Morristown, NJ (1883)
  • Commercial Union Assurance Co. Building, 46 Pine St., New York, NY (1883) - Demolished.[14]
  • Eagle Building, 71 Wall St., New York, NY (1884) - Headquarters of the Eagle Insurance Company. Demolished.[15]
  • John H. Ballantine House, 49 Washington St., Newark, NJ (1885) - Now part of the Newark Museum.[16]
  • George Bruce Memorial Library, 226 W. 42nd St., New York, NY (1887) - Originally a branch of the New York Free Circulating Library. Demolished.[17]
  • Moffat Library, 6. W. Main St., Washingtonville, NY (1887) - Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
  • George E. Dodge House, 27 W. 57th St., New York, NY (1888) - Demolished.[18]
  • Hotel Champlain, 136 Clinton Point Dr., Plattsburgh, NY (1888–90) - Burned in 1910.[19]
  • Washington A. Roebling House, 191 W. State St., Trenton, NJ (1889-1892) - Demolished in 1946.[20]
  • M. R. Townsend Houses, 3-5 E. 10th St., New York, NY (1890)[21]
  • The Arches, 341 Gin Ln., Southampton, NY (1890) - Owned by the architect. Demolished.[22]
  • Mercantile Library Building, 13 Astor Pl., New York, NY (1890) - On the site of Clinton Hall. It is today condominiums.[23]
  • Delaware and Hudson Railroad Depot, 37 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, PA (1893–99) - Demolished.[24]
  • Meadow Beach, 48 Gin Ln., Southampton, NY (1893) - The residence of Henry M. Day. Highly altered.[25]
  • Helena Flint House, 85 Larchmont Ave., Larchmont, NY (1894)[26]
  • God's Providence House, 330 Broome St., New York, NY (1894) - Residential, Occupied.[27]
  • Lincoln Safety Deposit Co. Warehouses, 60 E. 42nd St., New York, NY (1894) - Demolished, now the site of the Lincoln Building[28]
  • George E. Dodge House, 154 E. Lake Rd., Tuxedo Park, NY (1898) - Demolished.[29]
  • Lincoln Hospital and Home, 350 Concord Ave., Bronx, NY (1898) - Demolished.[30]
  • Robert Olyphant House, 16 E. 52nd St., New York, NY (1900) - Demolished.[31]
  • Commercial Union Assurance Co. Annex, 60 William St., New York, NY (1903) - Demolished.[32]
  • Fort William Henry Hotel (Addition), 48 Canada St., Lake George, NY (1908) - Burned in 1909.[33]

References[]

  1. ^ Louie, Elaine (November 17, 1994). "In a Newark Manor, Remains of the Day". New York Times. p. C4. Retrieved June 30, 2008.
  2. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 371. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ NoHo Historic District: Designation Report. 1999.
  4. ^ Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2003.
  5. ^ Trow Copartnership and Corporation Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, City of New York, March, 1910. New York: Trow Directory, Printing, and Bookbinding Co., 1909.
  6. ^ Journal. 13. American Institute of Architects. 1925. p. 315. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "National Register of Historic Places nomination form, Plumbush". Farm of Robert Parker Parrott, the inventor of the Parrott gun, located at 1656 Route 9D. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
  8. ^ Elbert Floyd-Jones, St. Mary’s Church in the Highlands, Cold Spring-on-the-Hudson, New York: A History (Poughkeepsie, NY: Frank B. Howard, 1920)
  9. ^ Historic Resources of East Providence, Rhode Island: Partial Inventory, Historic and Architectural Properties. Washington: United States Department of the Interior, 1979.
  10. ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.160
  11. ^ American Architect and Building News March 24, 1877: x.
  12. ^ Manufacturer and Builder June 1879: 128.
  13. ^ "Southwood" mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Web.
  14. ^ Sanitary Engineer May 10, 1883: 539.
  15. ^ Manufacturer and Building May 1884: 104.
  16. ^ Emblen, Mary L. (December 4, 1994). "Reopening". New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2008.
  17. ^ "The Bruce Library". Library Journal January 1888: 18.
  18. ^ Engineering and Building Record December 24, 1887: 64.
  19. ^ Tolles, Bryant F., Jr. Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2003.
  20. ^ http://www.tesc.edu/documents/Campus_with_a_History.pdf
  21. ^ Engineering and Building Record October 18, 1890: 321.
  22. ^ Spanburgh, Sally. The Southampton Cottages of Gin Lane: The Original Hamptons Summer Colony. Charleston: History Press, 2012.
  23. ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5.
  24. ^ Engineering Record 21 Oct. 1893: 339.
  25. ^ "A Summer House at Southampton, Long Island". Scientific American: Architects and Builders Edition May 1894: 66.
  26. ^ Scientific American August 7, 1897: 92.
  27. ^ Engineering Record January 6, 1894: 99.
  28. ^ Souvenir of the XXViiith Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects, October, 1895. 1894.
  29. ^ American Architect and Building News September 24, 1898: xiii.
  30. ^ Engineering News November 18, 1898: 189.
  31. ^ American Architect and Building News July 21, 1900: xii.
  32. ^ Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide February 14, 1903: 304.
  33. ^ Engineering News February 20, 1908: 55.

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