Background
Tilton, Edward Lippincott was born on October 19, 1861 in New York, United States. Son of Benjamin W. and Mary (Baker) Tilton.
Tilton, Edward Lippincott was born on October 19, 1861 in New York, United States. Son of Benjamin W. and Mary (Baker) Tilton.
Chappaqua Mountain Institute. École des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1887-1890.
He specialized in the design of libraries, such as the Olean Public Library and Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, District of Columbia), 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. Tilton abandoned a budding career in banking to serve as a draftsman in the offices of McKim, Mead, and White, a traditional apprenticeship for which he prepared with a private tutor in architecture and which prepared him for a course of further study at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1887–1890). Early commissions came through family connections.
They included the casino (1891-1892) in Belle Haven, an affluent shoreline community of Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Hotel Colorado in the resort of Glenwood Springs, Colorado (1891-1893).
The two architects continued to share an office. His design for the Carpenter Memorial Library in Manchester, New Hampshire resulted in commissions for at least seven further structures in that city.
He also designed the campus of Concordia College, a liberal arts college in Bronxville, New New York He published his thoughts on library planning and construction, in Essentials in Library Planning with Agricultural Engineer Bostwick and South.H Ranck (1928), and "Library Planning" posthumously published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1936).
Fellow American Institute of Architects.
Married Mary Eastman Bigelow, June 5, 1901.