Background
William Burnett Tuthill was born in 1855 in New York, United States.
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William Burnett Tuthill was born in 1855 in New York, United States.
He graduated at the New York City College when he was twenty years old.
After a few years of training in draftsmanship under architect Richard M. Hunt, in 1878 he set up practice for himself in the city. The first important commission Mr. Tuthill received was to design for a client Andrew Carnegie, a Music Hall in New York named for its founder. In association with Dankman Adlier and Louis Sullivan of Chicago, architects of that city's Music Hall, Tuthill worked out successfully the accoustical problems involved in his building. The opening of Carnegie Hall in 1895 and the pride of its patrons in the splendid structure brought satisfaction as well as renown to Mr. Tuthill.
Other noteworthy examples of his work prior to the turn of the century were the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in New York built on a site at the northeast corner of 20th Street and Second Avenue, 1890; The Inn at Princeton, N. J„ 1893; Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Harlem Y.W.C.A. Building, 1890, and Women's Medical College at the New York Infirmary on 101st Street near Manhattan Avenue. He was also architect of New York s Columbia Yacht Club, the Munsey Office Building in New London, Conn., alterations to the Church of the Messiah in New York, 1918, and a number of large residences in the city. Perhaps the most notable example of these was the Schinassi home on Riverside Drive near 108th Street, an imposing white marble mansion.
Mr. Tuthill was the author of several books on Architectural Drawings, including “The City Residence and its Construction," 1890, and “Cathedral Churches of England," 1923. He was also known as a talented musician and singer, member of the New York Oratorio Society, and intimate with most of the musical profession in the city.
A member and one of the founders of the Architectural League of New York.