820 Park Avenue

 820 Park Avenue, originally built for Elizabeth Millbank Anderson c. 1920 by John Mead Howells of Howells & Stokes at the corner of Park Avenue and East 75th Street in New York City.  Anderson died in 1921 and in 1924 the house was sold to A.J. Kobler, publisher of American Weekly, who retained Howells to remodel and redecorate the house (seen here in these 1924 photos).  The following year Kobler tore the house down and hired Harry Allan Jacobs to design an apartment house as a replacement.  Click HERE for more on 820 Park Avenue and HERE to see what stands there today on google street view.

Photos from the Museum of the City of New York.

'Beacon Hill House'

'Beacon Hill House', the Arthur Curtiss James estate designed by Howells & Stokes c. 1909 in Newport, Rhode Island, with landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers. James, a railroad tycoon, intended to remodel a c. 1890s Stanford White designed house on the site but built 'Beacon Hill House' after discovering structural defects within the foundation of the original home. The estate included a farm complex designed by Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1916. James and his wife died in 1941, the contents of the house were auctioned in 1944 and the residence sat empty while vandals and finally a fire destroyed the house in 1967.

Photos from Architecture and Building, 1913.

The American Geographical Society

The American Geographical Society Building designed by Howells & Stokes c. 1901 on West 81st Street in New York City. For whatever reason the AGS never seemed able to settle on a location, constantly moving around NYC until 1911 when they moved to Audubon Terrace. They are currently located in Brooklyn. Click HERE for more on the American Geographical Society. The building was demolished in the late 1920s and replaced with an Emery Roth designed apartment building.

Photos from Architectural Record, 1901.