Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 – April 23, 1924) was an American architect celebrated for his work in

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and

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design. He also designed notable

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s, including

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and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press. Later in life, Goodhue freed his architectural style with works like

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, one of three estates he designed.

Early career

Goodhue was born in

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, to Charles Wells Goodhue and his second wife, Helen Grosvenor (Eldredge) Goodhue. Due to financial constraints, he was educated at home by his mother until, at age 11 years, he was sent to Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. Finances prevented him from attending university. In lieu of formal training, in 1884 he moved to

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, New York City, to apprentice at the architectural firm of Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell (one of its principals,

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, was the architect of Grace Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral, both in New York City). Goodhue's apprenticeship ended in 1891 when he won a design competition for St. Matthew's in Dallas.

Cram and Goodhue

After completing his apprenticeship, Goodhue moved to

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, Massachusetts, where he was befriended by a group of young, artistic intellectuals involved in the founding of the Society of Arts and Crafts – Boston in 1897. This circle included

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and Ernest Fenollosa of the

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. It was also through this group that Goodhue met

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, who would be his business partner for almost 25 years. Cram and Goodhue were members of several societies, including the "Pewter Mugs" and the "

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". In 1892–1893 they published a quarterly art magazine called ''The Knight Errant''. The multitalented Goodhue was also a student of

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and

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. In 1896, he created the Cheltenham typeface for use by a New York printer, Cheltenham Press. This typeface came to be used as the headline type for ''

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''.

In 1891, Cram and Goodhue formed the architectural firm of Cram, Wentworth, and Goodhue, renamed Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson in 1898. The firm was a leader in

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, with significant commissions from ecclesiastical, academic, and institutional clients. The Gothic Revival Saint Thomas Church was designed by them and completed in 1913 on

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in New York City. In 1904, Goodhue built a townhouse at 106 East 74th Street, pushing the front to the building line and redesigning it in a mix of Gothic and Tudor styles. In 1915, Goodhue accepted membership to what is known now as the

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. In 1917, Goodhue was elected into the

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as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1923.

Independent practice

Early projects

When Goodhue left to begin his own practice in 1914, Cram had already created his dreamed-of

commission at the

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in New York City, and continued to work in the Gothic style mode for the rest of his career. Goodhue departed into a series of radically different stylistic experiments over his independent career. His first was the

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style for St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on New York City's

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, built on a new platform just above the

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railyards.

Spanish Colonial Revival projects

In California, in 1915, Bertram Goodhue re-interpreted masterful

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and Spanish Colonial architecture complete with the latter's traditional

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detailing into what became known as the

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of architecture. This was for the significant commission of the ''El Prado'' Quadrangle's layout and buildings at the major 1915

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, located in San Diego's Balboa Park. He was the lead architect, taking over from

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, with Carleton Winslow Sr. and

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assisting. The Panama–California Exposition's style was seen by many and widely published, becoming extremely influential in California and the Southern and Southwestern United States. It led to California's assimilation of

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as its dominant historical regional style, which continues to this day. The singular style for the rebuilding of Santa Barbara after its 1925 destruction by a major earthquake was drawn from the local

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and Goodhue's

Spanish Colonial Revival style trends. Examples of influential private Californian commissions, both extant registered landmarks now, are his 1906 J. Waldron Gillespie Estate,

; and 1915 Dater – Wright Ludington Estate, Dias Felices — Val Verde in Montecito. Goodhue and Gillespie had done a six-month research and acquisitions tour together through

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, and the

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before collaborating on the classic Persian gardens layout and Roman and Spanish Colonial Revival residence at El Fureidis. Goodhue's Spanish Colonial Revival style work went on to dominate the

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of public buildings and estate residences during the 1920s building boom in the

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Later projects

Later Goodhue's architectural creations became freed of architectural detail and more Romanesque in form, although he remained dedicated to the integration of

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work, and color in his surface architectural details. Towards the end of his career, he arrived at a highly personal style, a synthesis of simplified form and a generalized archaic quality, and those innovations paved the way for others to transition to modern architectural idioms. This style is seen in his last major projects: the 1926 Mediterranean revival and

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; the

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; and in his 1922 entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower competition.

Influence

Goodhue died in 1924 in New York City. He was interred within a wall vault in the north (left-hand)

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of his Church of the Intercession, at his request in the building he considered his finest. Architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie created a Gothic styled tomb for him there, featuring Goodhue recumbent, crowned by a carved halo of some of his buildings. He received the

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in 1925.

Collaboration

Throughout his career, Goodhue relied on frequent collaborations with several significant artists and artisans. These included architectural sculptor Lee Lawrie, and mosaicist and muralist

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. Their work is central to the aesthetic power and social messages implicit in Goodhue's best work. Lee Lawrie worked with Cram and Goodhue on: the Chapel at West Point, the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Bartholomew's, and the reredos at the Church of St. Thomas. Lawrie worked after 1914 with Goodhue's independent practice on: the

, the

, the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, the

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in Washington, D.C., and the Christ Church Cranbrook completed after Goodhue's death at the Cranbrook Schools in

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. Edward Ardolino was a frequent collaborating sculptor. After Goodhue's unexpected death in 1924, many of his designs and projects were brought to completion by architect Carleton Winslow Sr. in California, the successor firm of Mayers Murray & Phillip in New York, and other former associates. Goodhue's offices had employed before they established their own independent practices and reputations, designers and architects such as

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, Carleton Winslow Sr.,

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, and

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. Thematic consultant Hartley Burr Alexander, Lee Lawrie, and Hildreth Meiere reassembled in the 1930s for the

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project collaboration with Raymond Hood.

Legacy

In a dissertation on American regional architecture in California and Hawaii, Goodhue is credited with creating a distinctive interpretation of Spanish Colonial architecture into the

as a dominant Californian regional vernacular. He also directly influenced the dominance of the Spanish Colonial Revival style in major public and private architecture of 1920s Hawaii. Along with Paul Cret and others, Goodhue is sometimes credited with being part of popularizing the

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style in America, as in his design for the

building, by which some may retroactively classify him as an early American

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. However, his dedication to the integration of art and architecture was contrary to the spirit of

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design, and at least partly accounts for the academic and critical neglect of his work. A significant archive of Goodhue's correspondence,

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s, and professional papers is held by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at

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in New York City. James Perry Wilson, an architect and painter responsible for many of the Natural History dioramas at the

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, was employed by Bertram Goodhue Associates before transitioning to museum work.

Projects

* All Saints' Church,

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, 1892 * Church of the Advent (Boston) (1875–1888 by Sturgis & Brigham), Lady Chapel Interior, 1894 (as Cram & Goodhue) *

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, 1902 * Grace Church Chapel,

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, 1904 * The Chapel and the original campus of the

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, 1906 *

, 1906 * Saint Thomas Church in New York City, 1906 * St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, 1907 * First Baptist Church,

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, 1909 * St. John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford, Connecticut, 1909 * Kitchi Gammi Club,

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, 1912 * St. Paul's Episcopal Church,

, 1912 * Church of the Intercession, New York, 1913 * St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City, 1913 * Hotel Washington,

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, 1913 * Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Mount Kisco, New York, 1913 * Trinity Episcopal Church,

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, 1913 * Ford Hall,

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, 1914 * Hartley Building, Duluth, Minnesota, 1914 *

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, 1914 * Cavour Hartley House,

, 1915 * El Prado Quadrangle, the Fine Arts Gallery and the California Building (now the

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), all part of the

in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, 1915 * Rockefeller Chapel,

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, Illinois, commissioned 1918, built 1925–1928 * The town plan and several buildings for the "Million Dollar Ghost Town", Tyrone, New Mexico *

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Library, New York City, 1917 * St. Vincent Ferrer, New York City, 1920 * Oahu College and

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, 1915–1920 * First Congregational Church (Montclair, New Jersey) *

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, California, 1921 *

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of St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo Episcopal Church,

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, 1922. * The American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity,

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, War Memorial and Cloister Wall, 1922-1923. *

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, 1924 *

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, 1924 *

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Building, Washington, D.C., 1924 * Master Plan, the Physics Building, Dabney Hall, and other campus buildings for the

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(Caltech),

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, 1924 * Fraternity House of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers,

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, 1922–1924 * Trinity English Lutheran Church, West End Historic District,

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, 1924 * Oriental Institute,

, commissioned 1919, completed in 1931 by the successor firm of Mayers Murray & Phillip. *

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, commissioned 1922, completed 1927 by Hardie Phillip. * Christ Church Cranbrook,

, 1925–1928. * Memorial Flagpole or Goodhue Flagpole,

, 1927 * Lihiwai (residence of the governor of the

, 1927–1929 (completed by Hardie Phillip). * C. Brewer Building,

, completed 1931 by Hardie Phillip. * House of Philip W. Henry, Linden Circle,

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* Wolf's Head Society "New Hall",

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References

;Notes ;Citations ;Works cited * * ;Further reading * Oliver, Richard. ''Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1983 for the Architectural History Foundation. xii + 297 pp.; 146 illustrations, bibliography, index. * Whitaker, Charles Harris, ed. With text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Cram, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, and C. Howard Walker. ''Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue: Architect and Master of Many Arts''. New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, Inc., 1925. (Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. .) * Wyllie, Romy. ''Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture''. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

External links

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue architectural drawings and papers, 1882–1980

Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (New York, N.Y.) architectural drawings, 1908–1928

St. John's Episcopal Church, West Hartford, Connecticut

About the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C.

''An Alphabet of Celebrities''
illustrated by Bertram Goodhue, available in full text and with full zoomable page images in the

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