Robert Henderson Robertson

Robert Henderson Robertson (April 29 1849–June 3 1919) was an American architect who designed numerous municipal offices and churches.

Robertson was born April 29, 1849 in Philadelphia. His father was Archibald Robertson.

Commissions

His Park Row Building, 15 Park Row (1899) was for a brief period, the world's tallest building. Among his many New York City commissions: [Robert H. Robertson Dead, "The New York Times", June 5, 1919]

*Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, E. 73rd Street & Madison Ave. (1899)
*St. James (Protestant Episcopal) Church, E. 71st Street & Madison Ave. (1881)
*YWCA Building
*Church of the Holy Spirit
*Phillips Presbyterian Church

*American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street (1896)
*Academy of Medicine
*St. Paul's Church, 86th Street & West End Avenue [AIA Guide to New York City, MacMillan, 1967, page 452]
*Mohawk Building
*Corn Exchange Bank Building
*Mendelssohn Hall

Partnership

During his New York partnership with William Appleton Potter, from 1875 to 1881, the firm produced summer vacation cottages in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Jersey Shore. Potter and Robertson also designed:
*South Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts (1871-1875)
*Brown University Library (1875)
*St. James Protestant Episcopal Chapel; known as the Church of the Presidents, Elberon, New Jersey (1879)
*Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (1887-1889)
*First Reformed Dutch church, Somerville, New Jersey (1896-1897)
*33 East 67th Street, New York, New York (1903)

Robertson died June 3, 1919, in Nehasane, New York. He is buried in Southampton, New York.

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