Guilbert and Betelle
Guilbert and Betelle was an architecture firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the East Coast of the United States, with an emphasis on the "Collegiate Gothic" style. Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools.
Structures
The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:
Connecticut
- Cos Cob School, c. 1916
- Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut) (NRHP-listed)
- Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925
- State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922
Delaware
- Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921
- Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c.1932
New Jersey
- East Orange High School (demolished), c. 1911
- State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930
- Newark Central High School, c. 1912
- Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923
- Cleveland School, c. 1913
- East Side High School, c. 1911
- The Essex Club (New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926 (NRHP-listed)
- Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931
- Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930
- Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926
- Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910
- Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925
- Newark Normal School, c. 1913
- Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Arts, c. 1931
- Ridge Street School, c. 1913
- Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916
- South Side High School, c. 1913
- Weequahic High School, c. 1932
- West Side High School, c. 1926
- South Orange and Maplewood:
- Clinton Elementary, c. 1929
- Columbia High School, c. 1927
- First Street School, c. 1924
- Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924
- Montrose Elementary, c. 1924
- Maplewood Junior High, c.1930
- Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931
- Marshall Elementary, c.1922
- South Mountain Elementary, c.1929
- Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924
- Franklin Elementary
- Jefferson Elementary
- Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923
- Washington Elementary, c. 1931
- Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927
- Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927
- West Orange High School (Seton Hall Preparatory School)
New York
- The Bronxville School, c. 1930
- Great Neck High School, c. 1926
- New Rochelle High School, c. 1926
- Washington Irving School, c. 1925
Pennsylvania
- Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927
- Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925
NRHP-listed
Duplicative to the above, the buildings designed by these architects which survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) are:
- Essex Club, Newark, New Jersey[1]
- Glenville School, Greenwich, Connecticut[1]
- Iron Hill School No. 112C, Newark, Delaware [1]
- Charles B. Lore Elementary School, Wilmington, Delaware [1]
- One or more buildings in Military Park Commons Historic District, Newark, New Jersey[1]
- New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, New Jersey[1]
- Public School No. 111-C, Delaware [1]
- Ross Point School, Laurel, Delaware [1]
- Vineland High School, Vineland, New Jersey[1]
External links
- "James Betelle, Where Are You?" - biographical and professional history of Betelle.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.