Henry Ives Cobb

The Newberry Library in the present day.

Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931), born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles. Henry Ives Cobb's grandmother, Augusta Adams Cobb, controversially abandoned her husband, Henry Cobb, and seven of her nine children in 1843, and married Brigham Young as a plural wife.^{[citation needed]}

In Chicago, Cobb and partner Charles S. Frost designed Potter Palmer's mansion (demolished) on Lake Shore Drive; the Chicago Varnish Company Building—listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark; the Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 5749 N. Kenmore Avenue—also on the National Register of Historic Places; the Chicago Federal Building (demolished); the Newberry Library; the Fisheries Building (demolished) at the World's Columbian Exposition; and many pre-1900 buildings at Lake Forest College and the University of Chicago. Elsewhere, he designed the Liberty Tower, a Perpendicular Style Skyscraper in downtown Manhattan, that was converted to residences in 1980; the Olive Building in St. Louis and co-designed the King Edward Hotel in Toronto. Cobb moved to Washington, DC, in 1897 to escape the Chicago grime, which damaged his cherished art collection.

Works

Building	Location	Dates	Notes	Image
Palmer Mansion	1350 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago	1885	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb
Chicago Athletic Association Building	South Michigan Avenue, Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb
Newberry Library	60 West Walton Street, Chicago	1893	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and William Poole
Chicago Varnish Company Building	33 West Kinzie Street, Chicago	1895	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb
Olive Building	721 Olive Street, St. Louis	1896	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb; 1902 addition by Mauran, Russel & Garden
Former Chicago Historical Society Building	632 North Dearborn Avenue, Chicago	1896	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb
Woodward & Lothrop Store	1025 F Street NW, Washington	1897	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb; subsequent expansions 1902-1927
King Edward Hotel	King Street East and Jarvis Street, Toronto	1903	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb and E. J. Lennox for George Gooderham’s Toronto Hotel Company
Chicago Federal Building	Dearborn and Adams Streets, Chicago	1905	Designed by Henry Ives Cobb
Liberty Tower	55 Liberty Street, New York City	1909	Designed by Henry Ives Cobbs

See also

• Architecture of Chicago
• Cobb and Frost