Background
James Brite was born in the south.
1897
James Brite was born in the south.
James served an apprenticeship in architecture in New York, and after a period of training in draftsmanship with the firm of McKim, Mead & White, left for Europe to spend a year of travel and study on the continent.
Beginning practice in New York, United States in 1897 he organized the firm of Brite & Bacon and in that association was co-designer of the Public Library at Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. The American University at Washington D.C. and an imposing three-story Georgian mansion, "Laurel Hill" at Columbia, South Carolina, United States built soon after 1897. Since 1902 until his retirement in 1930, Mr. Brite carried on his work alone, active in planning suburban homes for a large clientele. Notable examples of his houses were the Georgian residence of Herbert L. Platt at Glen Cove, Long Island, United States, and ‘Darlington a Jacobean manor-house in New Jersey, modeled after "Bramhill in Hants, England. Mr. Brite spent his later years in Florida and passed away at his home in Howey-in-the-Hills.
