James Brown Lord

• Born — 26 April 1859 • Birthplace — New York • Died — 1 June 1902 • Place of death — New York City • Burial Place — Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn • Education — Princeton University • Occupation — Architect • Known for — Designing the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State • Spouse — Mary Townsend Nicoll • Illustration — Appellate Court, Madison Square, 1900 • Illustration — Yorkville Library of the New York Public Library, 1902

Lord was born in New York, into a distinguished family, the son of James Couper Lord and grandson of Daniel Lord, a prominent lawyer in New York. His mother was a daughter of James Brown, founder of the firm that became Brown Brothers Harriman. He graduated from Princeton University in 1879 and apprenticed in the architectural office of William A. Potter. While in Potter's office he helped design the buildings for Union Theological Seminary, at Park Avenue and 70th Street (demolished). He was a member of the Tuxedo Club and designed many of the buildings at Tuxedo Park, New York. He married Mary Townsend Nicoll, of a distinguished New York family and was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Union League, the Players Club, the Racquet Club and professionally of the American Institute of Architects and the National Academy of Design, where he was a Fellow. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

His early commissions, from 1883, were for residences in New York; Yonkers, Roslyn, Long Island; Tuxedo Park, New York; and Bar Harbor, Maine. • King Model Houses, 138th to 139th Streets, between 7th and 8th Avenues. 1890. Conjointly with Stanford White and Bruce Price. • Delmonico's, 56 Beaver Street (1890), and Delmonico's Fifth Avenue (1896, demolished). • Appellate Court, Madison Avenue and 25th Street, New York. 1900. • Society of New York Hospital for the Insane (Bloomingdale Asylum), White Plains, New York. 1894 • New York Infant Asylum, Amsterdam Avenue and 61st Street, New York (1901, demolished) • Brookside Cottage, Tuxedo Park, New York (1892) • St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo Episcopal Church Parish House, Tuxedo Park, New York (1901)

The authorities additionally record the heading James B. He was the child of James Couper Lord and Margaretta Hunter Brown. He married Mary Townsend Lord Cuyler. One child is recorded: James Couper Lord.