Tracy and Swartwout


Tracy and Swartwout was a prominent New York City architectural firm headed by Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.

History

Evarts Tracy was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grandmother Martha Sherman Evarts and maternal grandmother Mary Evarts were the sisters of William M. Evarts. Evarts Tracey graduated from Yale in 1890.
Egerton Swartwout was the first son of Satterlee Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton. Swartwout graduated from Yale University in 1891.
Both Swartwout and Tracy had trained and worked as draftsmen with the renowned firm, McKim, Mead and White.
From 1904-1909, Tracy and Swartwout were joined by architect James Riely Gordon, forming the firm Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout.
In 1909-1912 the firm was joined by Electus Darwin Litchfield, a graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the Stevens Institute of Technology. The firm was at this time named Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield.
Evarts Tracy died January 31, 1922, in France, of chronic myocarditis. Egerton Swartwout continued working on his own after Evarts Tracy's death.

Buildings

DateNameImageLocationNotes-
1900Former Yale Club30 W. 44th Street, New YorkNow the Penn Club-
1901home for Evarts Tracy1009 Hillside Ave. Plainfield NJ-
1902The Webster Hotel40 West 45th Street, New YorkAdded to National Register of Historic Places, 1984-
1903Muhlenberg Regional Medical CenterPark Ave. and Randolph Road Plainfield, NJcurrently in danger of being demolished-
1906Pliny Fisk HouseNew York City -
1906Skull and Bones, cloister-gardenNew Haven, ConnecticutFor the Yale University secret society. Evarts Tracy is believed to have been an 1890 member of the society, and William M. Evarts was an 1837 member-
1905-1907National Metropolitan Bank BuildingWashington, D.C.designed by B. Stanley Simmons added to National Register of Historic Places, 1978-
1907Albert Moyer House324 N. Ridgewood Rd. S. Orange, NJ-
1907-1909Somerset County CourthouseSomerville, New Jersey-
1908Stamford YMCA909 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CTnow Hotel Zero Degrees attached to YMCA-
1908-1911Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, DenverDenver, ColoradoAdded to National Register of Historic Places, 1975-
1915Astor Market95th and Broadway NY, NYdemolished-
1915George Washington Memorial HallWashington, D.C.construction was started but never completed
1916U.S. Post Office and Federal BuildingDenver, ColoradoAdded to National Register of Historic Places, 1973-
1917Missouri State CapitolJefferson City, MissouriBeaux-Arts-
1919Ridgewood High SchoolRidgewood, New Jersey-