Babb, Cook & Willard was a New York City-based

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established in 1884 that designed many important houses and commercial buildings. The principals of the firm were George Fletcher Babb (1836–1915), Walter Cook (1843–1916), and Daniel W. Willard. Willard left the firm in 1908, and was replaced by Winthrop A. Welch. The firm was subsequently renamed Babb, Cook and Welch until 1912, when it became Cook and Welch.

Walter Cook

Partner Walter Cook was born in New York and graduated from

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in 1869. He further studied at the Royal Polytechnic School in Munich and at the in Paris. He returned to New York in 1877 and worked there as an architect until he died on March 25, 1916, aged 70.

Works

Andrew Carnegie Mansion The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is a historic house and a museum building at 2 East 91st Street (Manhattan), 91st Street, along the east side of Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The three-and-a-half story, brick a ...

, 2 East 91st Street, New York City, designed to be "most modest, plainest, and most roomy house in New York" * New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal, which was the tallest building in the province of Quebec from 1888 to 1908 *"The Clearing", a Colonial Revival estate house built around 1889 for John Hornor Wisner, a merchant in the China trade, at what is now the Reeves-Reed Arboretum * De Vinne Press Building, built 1885–1886, listed on the

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*About six of 39 Carnegie libraries built in New York City * Frederick B. Pratt House, in Brooklyn, New York, completed in 1898 in a neo-Georgian style * Charles Atwater House at 321 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, a significant

Shingle style The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the shingle style, Engli ...

house in the

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*William S. Ingraham House in the Federal Hill Historic District of Bristol, Connecticut. The 25-room Shingle-Style home was built in 1890 and heated by pipes connected to the E. Ingraham Company *

Welwyn Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the nearby villages and settlements of Digswell, Mardley Heath and Oaklands. The village is sometimes referred to as Old Welwyn or Welwyn Village, to ...

, a Georgian-style mansion built in 1906 in

Glen Cove, New York Glen Cove is a Political subdivisions of New York State#City, city in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island, New York (state), New York, United States. The city's population was 28,3 ...

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