Guilbert and Betelle

Guilbert and Betelle was an architecture firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the East Coast of the United States, with an emphasis on the "Collegiate Gothic" style.

Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools, including Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut and the Radburn School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable buildings for which the firm was responsible include the Essex County Hall of Records and the Essex Club (now home of the New Jersey Historical Society). [http://www.vineland.org/history/landisschool/architecture/architecture.htm Architecture] , Vineland Public Schools. Accessed September 13, 2008.]

tructures

The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:

Connecticut

*Greenwich:: Cos Cob School, c. 1916: Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925
* New Britain:: State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922

Delaware

: Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921: Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c. 1932

New Jersey

*East Orange:: East Orange High School (demolished), c. 1911
*Jersey City:: State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930
*Newark:: Newark Central High School, c. 1912: Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923: Cleveland School, c. 1913: East Side High School, c. 1911: The Essex Club (New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926: Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931: Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930: Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926: Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910: Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925: Newark Normal School, c. 1913: Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, c. 1931: Ridge Street School, c. 1913: Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916: South Side High School, c. 1913: Weequahic High School, c. 1932: West Side High School, c. 1926
*South Orange and Maplewood:: Clinton Elementary, c. 1929: Columbia High School, c. 1927: First Street School, c. 1924: Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924: Montrose Elementary, c. 1924: Maplewood Junior High, c.1930: Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931: Marshall Elementary, c.1922: South Mountain Elementary, c.1929: Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924
*Summit:: Franklin Elementary: Jefferson Elementary: Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923: Washington Elementary, c. 1931
*Vineland:: Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927: Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927
*West Orange: West Orange High School (Seton Hall Preparatory School)

New York

*Bronxville: The Bronxville School, c. 1930
*Great Neck: Great Neck High School, c. 1926
*New Rochelle: New Rochelle High School, c. 1926
*Tarrytown: Washington Irving School, c. 1925

Pennsylvania

*Williamsport:: Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927: Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925

External links

* [http://jamesbetelle.com "James Betelle, Where Are You?"] - biographical and professional history of Betelle.

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