Lansing Colton Holden Sr. (March 2, 1858 – May 15, 1930) was an American architect of the late 19th & early 20th centuries with several works in

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.https://lhva.org/docs/History-Set-In-Stone.pdf He was also involved in architecture for

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Biography

Holden was born in 1858 in

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. His father owned a marble yard in

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, where he attended public schools. He later attended

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, at which his brother, Louis E. Holden, served as president. He worked under architect

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, who designed the First Presbyterian Church in Ossining, New York. He also worked with Mills & Greenleaf. From 1908 until his death he was president of the Bronx Refrigerating Company and of the Tri-Boro Refrigerating Company. Holden was elected a fellow of the

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in 1912. He served on many committees and was largely responsible for the its code of ethics in its present form, and served as.president of the New York Chapter. He was a member of the Board of Examiners of the City of New York in 1916, a member of the Board of Standards and Appeals in 1916 – 18, and a director of the Engineers Club. He had served as the architect of the

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. His son, Lansing Colton Holden Jr. was an aviator. His grandson, Lansing C. Holden III, worked as a writer. Holden died at his summer home at Kent Cliffs in

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on May 15, 1930.

Works

Holden designed a variety of building some of which have been listed on the

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(NRHP). It is believed that he also designed several textile mill buildings in New England but no record of these has been found. COWkaukehall

(NRHP)

*1887-1892:

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, now the Antioch Baptist Church (1887-1892), Bedford–Stuyvesant,

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:::Designed in association with Paul F. Higgs in a mixed Romanesque Revival/Queen Anne style *1890, Townhouse, Bedford–Stuyvesant,

. *1894-1896: Connell Building,

*1895:

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, later the Hebrew Day School,

demolished and removed from NRHP *1896: Scranton Electric Building (originally Scranton Board of Trade),

:::In modified Beaux Arts style, at eight stories, the city's first "skyscraper," *1897: Scranton Dry Goods (1897), originally Jonas Long's Son's later Oppenheim's,

originally a dry goods store and restored as an office building; *1900: Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company Administration Building

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*1901: Scranton Armory (1901) Romanesque Revival,

(NRHP) *1902-1904: Convenent (Westminster) Presbyterian Church,

:::contains nineteen stained glass windows, including works by Tiffany *1902-1903: Klots Throwing Company Mill silk mill, Cumberland (NRHP) *1902-1912:

: Kauke, Scovel, and Severance Hall :::Following a new campus plan after a fire in 1901, in the English Collegiate Gothic or Gothic Tudor style *1903: Nathan Littauer Hospital (addition),

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*1906-1908:

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, Ossining, New York (NRHP) *1909: Everett N. Blanke House (1909) in Rowayton, Connecticut1909 Everett N. Blanke House in Greenwich, CT *1912: Bayonne Trust, Bayonne, New Jersey (NRHP) *1930: Manhattan Refrigerating Company/Gansevoort Freezing and Cold Storage Company,

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, Manhattan, New York City :::Cold storage facility: through a series of brine-filled pipes leading from these buildings, the meat wholesaling establishments of the district were able to keep meat cold. Converted to apartments named “The West Coast.” in 1984. *1935:

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(NRHP) *Carbondale New York Company, 173-175

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, warehouse buildings * Christ Hospital, The Heights, Jersey City, New Jersey (demolished) *Christian Workers’ Home,

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, New York City *Apartments, NE corner of Lombard and Carlisle Streets,

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References

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