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Samuel Adams Warner (1822–1897) was an American architect.
Wealthy New York Architect Passes Away in Roslyn, L.I. -- Sketch of His Career. New York Times He studied architecture in his father Cyrus Lazelle Warner (1789-1852)'s office and partnered with his younger brother Benjamin Warner from 1862 to 1868. He designed
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merchant buildings for the H.B. Claflin Company, S.B. Chittendon & Company, Charles St. John, and H.D. Aldrich. He also designed the
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and several buildings in the
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neighborhood of westside
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in New York City's now designated
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with significant examples of
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from 1879 to 1895. Benjamin Warner is credited with designing 33 Greene Street at the northwest corner of Grand Street in 1873.


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Samuel Adams Warner House Samuel Adams Warner House is a historic home located at Roslyn, New York, Roslyn in Nassau County, New York. Description It was designed by architect Samuel Adams Warner and built about 1875 and is a -story, vernacular Swiss chalet style, Swi ...
(1875), the architect's home, which he designed, further east in
Roslyn, New York Roslyn ( ) is a village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It is the Greater Roslyn area's anchor community. The population was 2,988 at the time of the 2020 census. ...
( Nassau County on the North Shore of
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). *
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(1851–1854), a
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structure of an inter-denominational
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church, at 1 West 29th Street on the northwest corner of 5th Avenue in Manhattan of New York City *
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(now
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) (built 1886–1887) at 239 East 62nd Street (between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue), in
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of New York City *16-18 Greene Street, Manhattan, New York City *20-26 Greene Street (1880), Manhattan, New York City *39-41 Worth Street *600 Broadway (1884) *545 Broadway (1885) *426-432 Broadway (1888-89)


Gallery of buildings designed by Samuel A. Warner


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warner, Samuel A. 1822 births 1897 deaths People from Roslyn, New York 19th-century American architects