Henry Ives Cobb

The Newberry Library in the present day.

Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931), born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles. Henry Ives Cobb's grandmother, Augusta Adams Cobb, controversially abandoned her husband, Henry Cobb, and seven of her nine children in 1843, and married Brigham Young as a plural wife.

Cobb and his partner Charles S. Frost designed Potter Palmer's mansion (now demolished) on Lake Shore Drive, the Chicago Varnish Company Building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark, the Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 5749 N. Kenmore Avenue (also on the National Register of Historic Places), the Chicago Federal Building (now demolished), the Newberry Library, the Fisheries Building (now demolished) at the World's Columbian Exposition, and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago.^[1][2] He also co-designed the King Edward Hotel in Toronto and Liberty Tower in downtown Manhattan a Perpendicular Style Skyscraper that has been converted to residences.^[3] Cobb moved to Washington, DC, in 1897 to escape the Chicago grime, which damaged his cherished art collection.^[4]

Works

Building	Location	Dates	Notes	Image
King Edward Hotel	King Street East and Jarvis Street, Toronto	1903	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and E. J. Lennox for George Gooderham’s Toronto Hotel Company[5]
Chicago Athletic Association Building	South Michigan avenue, Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb

See also

• Architecture of Chicago
• Cobb and Frost

References

1. ^ http://botanicgarden.uchicago.edu/h-center-fyu6.html
2. ^ Carl W. Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 1973, p. 59-60.
3. ^ "The King Edward Hotel". Online Plaque Guide. Ontario Heritage Trust. 2006-02-28. http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_7582_1.html. Retrieved 2007-12-25. 
4. ^ Wolner, Edward W. "Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago." University of Chicago Press, 2011.
5. ^ http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_7582_1.html Ontario Heritage Trust King Edward Hotel

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Name	Cobb, Henry Ives
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Date of birth	August 19, 1859
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Date of death	March 27, 1931
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