Background
Lewis Albro was born in 1876 in Paris, France. The son of American parents, he was brought to the United States when a boy and spent his youth at the family home in Pittsfield, Mass.
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Columbia University Library
Carnegie Libraries in New York
LEWIS COLT ALBRO
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Becoming interested in Architecture, at the age of eighteen he went to New York for a year of rudimentary training at the Metropolitan Art School. He then entered McKim, Mead 6 White's office as a student,
Career
Mr. Albro employed as a draftsman, and in his work proved so skillful a designer that he was rapidly promoted to a position of responsibility. During the nine years he remained with the firm he was closely associated with McKim in designing the Columbia University Library and other buildings on the campus and later was given charge of several important commissions, including Car¬negie Libraries in New York, the Palatial Mitchell residence at Wading River, N.Y„ and the Manhattan home of the artist, Charles Dana Gibson After leaving McKim, Mead & White, Mr. Albro engaged in private practice for a time, during which he designed a house at Newport, R. I., for Mr Gibson. From 1906 to 1914 he maintained a partnership with Mr. Lindeberg and the firm acquired a reputation as designers of the highest type of residential work with many prominent people numbered in its clientele.
During the last decade of his career Mr. Albro practiced alone, and among the many houses he planned the most characteristic were the George Arentz Jr estate at Rye, N. Y... Jerome Mendelsohn residence at Albany N Y an Italian villa for John Bushnell at Springfield, Ohio, a group of English farm houses for Ernest Fahnestock at Cold Springs, N. Y'„ and a home for Dr M E Johnson at Lexington, Ky.
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January 1, 1924 (aged 47) -
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1906 - 1914