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• Richmond H. Shreve FAIA, 1925-1946, his death
• William F. Lamb FAIA, 1925-1952, his death
• Arthur L. Harmon FAIA, 1929-1958, his death
• Harold C. Bernhard AIA, 1943-1970, his retirement
• Howard F. Vanderbeck AIA, 1943-1962, his retirement
• Harvey P. Clarkson AIA, 1956-1978, his death
• Stanhope B. Ficke AIA, 1956-before 1970
• William H. Leyh AIA, 1970-1974, his retirement
• Serge P. Petroff AIA, 1970-1974, his death
• Robert W. Jones AIA, 1970-1974, his withdrawl
• William A. Plyer AIA, 1974-1995, his retirement
• Donald E. Grossmann AIA, 1974-1996, dissolution

Shreve, Lamb & Harmon were awarded the 1931 Medal of Honor from the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects for their work on the Empire State Building.^[1]

In 1943 the original partners were joined by two new partners, Harold C. Bernhard AIA and Howard F. Vanderbeck AIA, and was renamed Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates.^[2] Shreve and Lamb died in 1946 and 1952, respectively, and in 1956 two new partners, Stanhope B. Ficke AIA and Harvey P. Clarkson AIA, were addmitted.^[3] Harmon died in 1958, and Vanderbeck and Ficke retired in the 1960s.

In early 1970 William H. Leyh AIA, an employee since 1940, was made a partner.^[4] Late that year the firm merged with Petroff & Jones Associates and was reorganized as a professional corporation, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates PC. The principals of the reorganized firm were Clarkson, as president, with Leyh and Serge P. Petroff AIA and Robert W. Jones AIA, partners in the former Petroff & Jones Associates.^[5] In 1972, with the construction of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan the the Sears Tower in Chicago costing the Empire State Building its status as the tallest building in New York City and the world, Jones devised a tentative plan to reclaim that status. He proposed that the uppermost 16 floors be pulled down and replaced by a new 33 floor addition, which would bring the height to 1,494 feet, taller than the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower.^[6] The proposal was shelved after public backlash and the poor office market of the early 1970s made it infeasible.^[7] Jones was also responsible for a proposed extension to the Embassy of the United States, Paris, which would have fronted on the gardens on the Hôtel de Pontalba. In 1973 this was awarded a citation from Progressive Architecture.^[8] Due to difficulties the project was never built.^[9] Major changes occurred in 1974, with the retirement of Leyh and Jones and the death of Petroff. To take their place William A. Plyer AIA and Donald E. Grossmann AIA were appointed vice presidents.^[10]

In 1978 Clarkson, still serving as president, died of a heart attack in his office.^[11]

• 1927: move to 11 East 44th Street
• 1971: move to 475 Park Avenue South^[12]
• 1978: move to 353 Park Avenue South
• Later move to 10 East 21st Street

Architectural works

In New York City

• 1927 — 11 East 44th Street, Manhattan^[13]
  • Home of the Shreve offices from 1927 until 1971.^[14]
• 1929 — Lefcourt National Building, Manhattan^[15]
• 1930 — L. P. Hollander Company Building, Manhattan^[16]
  • A New York City Landmark.
• 1931 — 500 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan^[17]
  • A New York City Landmark.
• 1931 — Empire State Building, Manhattan^[18]
  • The tallest building in the world from its completion until 1970. A National Historic Landmark, a New York City Landmark and NRHP-listed.
• 1931 — Seamen's House YMCA (former), Manhattan^[19]
  • Later the Bayview Correctional Facility.
• 1933 — Insurance Company of North America Building, Manhattan^[20]
  • NRHP-listed.
• 1938 — Williamsburg Houses, Brooklyn^[21]
  • Designed by the Williamsburg Houses Associated Architects, for which Richmond H. Shreve was chief architect.
• 1940 — Vladeck Houses, Manhattan^[22]
• 1941 — North Building, Hunter College, Manhattan^[23]
  • Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and Harrison & Fouilhoux, associated architects.
• 1942 — Parkchester, The Bronx^[24]
  • Designed by a Board of Design, of which Richmond H. Shreve was chairman.
• 1947 — Best & Company Building, Manhattan^[25]
  • Demolished in 1970.
• 1950 — Mutual of New York Building, Manhattan^[26]
• 1952 — Broadway Temple United Methodist Church, Manhattan^[27]
• 1958 — Kings County Courthouse, Brooklyn^[28]
• 1959 — Carman Hall, Columbia University, Manhattan^[29]
• 1961 — United Engineering Center, Manhattan^[30]
  • Demolished in 1997.
• 1962 — Western Electric Building, Manhattan^[31]
• 1964 — 1301 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan^[32]
• 1967 — 245 Park Avenue, Manhattan^[33]
• 1969 — 475 Park Avenue South, Manhattan^[34]
• 1969 — 1250 Broadway, Manhattan^[35]
• 1972 — Gouverneur Hospital, Manhattan^[36]
• 1974 — Deutsche Bank Building, Manhattan^[37]
  • Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, architects, with Peterson & Brickbauer, associate architects. Demolished from 2007 to 2011 after suffering heavy damage in the September 11 attacks.
• 1976 — 3 Park Avenue, Manhattan^[38]

Elsewhere in the United States

• 1928 — Standard Building, Albany, New York^[39]
• 1929 — Chimes Building, Syracuse, New York^[40]
  • Designed by Shreve & Lamb, architects, with Fred B. O'Connor, associate architect.
• 1929 — Reynolds Building, Winston-Salem, North Carolina^[41]
  • NRHP-listed.
• 1933 — Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Chattanooga, Tennessee^[42]
  • Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, architects, with R. H. Hunt, associate architect. NRHP-listed.
• 1936 — Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Washington, DC^[43]
• 1937 — Hill Building, Durham, North Carolina
  • Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, architects, with George Watts Carr, associate architect.
• 1939 — Lever House (former), Cambridge, Massachusetts^[44]
  • The American headquarters of Lever Brothers until 1952, when they relocated to the second Lever House in New York City. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, architects, with Donald des Granges, associate architect. Now occupied by the MIT Sloan School of Management.
• 1939 — Palmer Auditorium, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut^[45]
• 1942 — Olin Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York^[46]
• 1942 — Sampson Air Force Base, Romulus, New York^[2]
• 1949 — Johns-Manville Corporation research center, Bridgewater Township, New Jersey^[47]
• 1951 — Thurston Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York^[48]
• 1953 — Stanolind Oil and Gas Company research laboratories, Tulsa, Oklahoma^[2]
  • Now the Administration Building of the Schusterman Center of the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa.
• 1959 — College Center at Crozier-Williams, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut^[49]
• 1963 — Bard Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York^[50]
• 1967 — Stonehenge, North Bergen, New Jersey
• 1972 — Textron Tower, Providence, Rhode Island^[51]
  • Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, architects, with Ira Rakatansky, associate architect.

International

• 1941 — Ernest Harmon Air Force Base, Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada^[52]

References

Notes

1. "Honor Architects For Empire State" New York Times, January 27, 1931, 23.
2. "William F. Lamb, 68, Architect, Is Dead," New York Times, September 9, 1952, 31.
3. "Real Estate Notes," New York Times, November 10, 1956, 31..
4. "Notices" in Progressive Architecture 51, no. 1 (January, 1970): 194.
5. "News of the Realty Trade," New York Times, February 21, 1971, R1-R2.
6. Deirdre Carmody, "11 Floors May Be Added to the Empire State," New York Times, October 11, 1972, 1.
7. Martin Gottlieb, "Why a Taller Skycraper? Because It's Not There," New York Times, August 5, 1984, 6E.
8. "Notices" in Progressive Architecture 54, no. 1 (January, 1973): 88-89.
9. Robert W. Jones, "Paris Recollection [Letter to the editor]," New York Times, March 2, 1980, R5.
10. "Notices" in Progressive Architecture 55, no. 2 (February, 1974): 96.
11. "Harvey P. Clarkson, 64, Architect Who Served on Columbia Faculty," New York Times, February 27, 1978, D7.
12. "News of the Realty Trade," New York Times, March 21, 1971, R4.
13. "Hale Desk Co. Takes Space On East Side," New York Times, February 10, 1927, 40.
14. "Announcements" in Architecture 56, no. 1 (July, 1927): 20.
15. "40 Story Skyscraper For Fifth Avenue," New York Times, January 25, 1928, 14.
16. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 336.
17. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 271.
18. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 266.
19. "$1,000,000 Y.M.C.A. For Seamen Ready" New York Times, November 1, 1931, 50.
20. "Two Skyscrapers Will Open This Week; RCA and John Street Buildings Ready" New York Times, April 30, 1933, RE1.
21. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 703.
22. "First Public Housing In U.S. Financed With City Funds," New York Times, November 22, 1939, 23.
23. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 435.
24. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 876.
25. "Best & Co. To Build New 5th Ave. Store," New York Times, December 22, 1944, 21.
26. "Insurance Tower Praised By Mayor," New York Times, October 5, 1948, 23.
27. "Methodist Church Is Dedicated Here," New York Times, November 24, 1952, 20.
28. Francis Morrone, An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn (Layton: Gibbs Smith, 2001)
29. Andrew S. Dolkart, Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)
30. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 349.
31. "New Western Electric Building Blends With Diverse Neighbors," New York Times, August 26, 1962, R1.
32. "30 Floors Leased In A Record Dead," New York Times, August 21, 1963, L51.
33. "News Of Realty: Big Space Taken," New York Times, July 15, 1965, L46.
34. Joseph P. Fried, "News Of Realty: Office Tower Set," New York Times, August 15, 1968, L61.
35. "West 30's Getting 5 Major Projects," New York Times, April 9, 1967, R1.
36. "Work Begun on Lower East Side For New Gouverneur Hospital," New York Times, April 30, 1964, L27.
37. "Buildings on the Way Up," Progressive Architecture 52, no. 4 (April 1971): 33.
38. Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010): 284.
39. "Big Albany Deal," New York Times, February 18, 1927, 39.
40. Evamaria Hardin, Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993)
41. Reynolds Building NRHP Registration Form (2014)
42. U. S. Post Office NRHP Registration Form (1980)
43. Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee., Buildings of the District of Columbia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993): 181-182.
44. "SCAM.1398", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d.
45. Bridgemen's Magazine 38, no. 5 (May 1938): 281.
46. "2024-Olin Hall"
47. Clifford F. Rassweiler, "The Johns-Manville Research Center Six Years Later," Architectural Record x, no. x (September 1955): 222-224.
48. "2037T-Thurston Hall"
49. McDonald, Thomas Blake, "The Architecture of Connecticut College" (2010). Architectural Studies Honors Papers. 1. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/archstudhp/1
50. "2070-Bard Hall"
51. William McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources, ed. David Chase (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986)
52. "$25,000,000 More Given For Bases," New York Times, December 4, 1940, 20.