Background
Tilton born on October 19, 1861 in New York City. He was the son of Benjamin White and Mary (Baker) Tilton, and a direct descendant of John Tilton, who emigrated to Lynn, Massachussets, from England between 1630 and 1640.
(5.5" x 3.5"; folder of eight double-sided panels with 13 ...)
5.5" x 3.5"; folder of eight double-sided panels with 13 black and white views (including a two-panel panorama) and three blank panels for writing and address. Date of publication estimated. Established by silver magnate and banker Walter Devereux, construction began in 1891 at a cost of $350,000. Edward Lippincott Tilton designed the building as a replica of the Villa de Medici. Local materials used include cream-colored Roman brick and Peach Blow Sandstone; imported items included 12,000 yards of carpet and 2,000 rose bushes. The Hotel Colorado opened on June 10, 1893 to a program including a fireworks display, an orchestra in the ballroom, and dining at midnight for the 300 couples in attendance. The hotel quickly became a popular summer retreat, earning the nickname of "the little White House of the West" after extended visits by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The teddy bear is alleged to have been invented during President Roosevelt's 1905 visit when the hotel's maids presented him with a stuffed bear pieced together with scraps of fine material. Several ghosts are believed to reside there, notably a young girl in Victorian clothing seen playing with a ball, a female that peers over sleeping male guests, and a male presence on the fifth floor. The two suites in the bell towers are frequently reported to be haunted. The elevator moving on its own without passengers, strange smells and sounds have also been reported by guests and staff.
https://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Glenwood-Springs-Souvenir-Postcard/dp/B00FAY4F3E?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00FAY4F3E
Tilton born on October 19, 1861 in New York City. He was the son of Benjamin White and Mary (Baker) Tilton, and a direct descendant of John Tilton, who emigrated to Lynn, Massachussets, from England between 1630 and 1640.
He was educated in private schools in Mount Vernon and Chappaqua, N. Y. (1870 - 80), and studied architectural drawing with a private tutor (1879 - 80).
He went to Paris for three years at the École des Beaux Arts.
In 1880, after experience in business, first with the firm of R. R. Haydock and later with Corlies, Macy and Company, he entered the offices of the architects McKim.
He returned to New York in 1890 and in 1891 formed a partnership with William A. Boring, the firm at first being Boring, Tilton & Mellen, later Boring & Tilton.
Long interested in archaeology, in 1895, through William Robert Ware, Tilton was appointed architect to the group sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens to excavate the Argive Her'um.
Boring and Tilton's first important commission was that for the United States immigrant station on Ellis Island, won by competition and completed in 1900. Largely because of its efficient solution of this complicated problem, the firm was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Other important works of the firm are Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. , the Seamen's Institute, New York City, and the Town Hall, East Orange, N. J.
After the withdrawal of Boring in 1915 to become director of the Columbia University School of Architecture, Tilton associated himself with Alfred M. Githens, the firm name in 1921 becoming Tilton and Githens. The public library at Mount Vernon, N. Y. , built in 1910, was the first of a long series of buildings with which Tilton's name is especially connected, and the modern public library form (with ground-floor stack space and reading-room above) is in no small measure due to his logical analysis of library problems.
His views on control of books and readers, efficiency and directness of service, and open cheerfulness of effect are fully expressed in his "Library Planning" (Architectural Forum, Dec. 1927) and "Library Planning and Design".
During the World War Tilton designed over sixty libraries and over thirty theatres for various army camps and cantonments. Characteristic examples of his work are the public libraries at Somerville and Springfield, Massachussets, and especially the more recent McGregor Public Library (1925) of Highland Park, Mich. , and the Wilmington, Del. , library (1930). In the last two the stack and service floor is sunk into the ground in order to secure entrance to the reading-room floor from the street. Both are also characterized by an original handling of classic motives, the wings becoming almost all glass on the sides, with a more solid central entrance.
Other important libraries designed by Tilton are the Knight Memorial Library, Providence, R. I, the library of Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. , several branch libraries in Washington, D. C. , and the library of Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa. In addition, Tilton served as consulting architect to many libraries, and Tilton and Githens were associated with Clyde and Nelson Fritz in the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, Md. Notable works of other types include the Central High School, Johnstown, Pa. , the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Natural History at Springfield, Massachussets, and the county administration building for Bergen County, N. J. Tilton's work is remarkable for its careful study of practical requirements.
He was a classicist in taste, inspired in his early work by the Italian Renaissance and in his later by the work of ancient Greece and Rome, but he was never the copier or the unthinking plagiarist, and in his novel and charming buildings at Highland Park and Wilmington achieved a new synthesis of classic detail and modern needs.
In addition to his architectural articles he was the author of The Architecture of the Small Library (Lansing, Mich. , 1911), and "The Architecture of the Argive Her'um" in The Argive Her02um (2 vols. , 1902 - 05), by Sir Charles Waldstein and others.
He died in Scarsdale, N. Y. , survived by his wife and his son.
Edward Lippincott Tilton was an American architect, with a practice in New York City, where he was born. He specialized in the design of libraries, such as the Olean Public Library and Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D. C. ), two of about a hundred libraries, many of them Carnegie libraries, that he designed in the United States and Canada, and structures for educational institutions. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects for his work.
(5.5" x 3.5"; folder of eight double-sided panels with 13 ...)
In religion he was a Quaker.
He was one of the organizers of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, and for twenty-five years treasurer of the fund for the Paris prize; a member of the Architectural League; a fellow of the American Institute of Architects; a fellow of the Archaeological Institute of America, and its treasurer at the time of his death.
He was a man of wide and scholarly interests, and a charming speaker.
He married Mary Eastman Bigelow of Mount Vernon, N. Y. , on June 5, 1901, and had a son and a daughter.
