Green and Wicks
Green & Wicks was an architectural firm of Buffalo, New York.
Practice
Edward Brodhead Green was an 1878 graduate of Cornell University's College of Architecture, and designed a number of buildings which made up Cornell's Agriculture Quadrangle, including Bailey Hall, Caldwell Hall, the Computing and Communications Center, Fernow Hall, and the original Roberts Hall.Green's best-known commissions were designed with his partner William Sydney Wicks, as Green & Wicks. The firm's chronology is:
- 1884: Green & Wicks founded
- 1917: Renamed E.B. Green & Son
- 1933: Renamed E. B Green after his son's death
- 1936: Renamed Green & James
- 1945: Renamed Green, James & Meadows
- 1950: Renamed James & Meadows after Green's death
- 1952: Renamed James, Meadows & Howard
- 1974: Firm dissolved
A number of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Projects
Notable works of the Green & Wicks architectural firm include:- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Albright Memorial Building, N. Washington Ave. and Vine St. Scranton, PA, NRHP-listed
- American Radiator Company Factory Complex, Buffalo, NY, NRHP-listed
- Bailey Hall, Cornell University, 1912, NRHP-listed
- Buffalo Crematorium Company, 901 W Delavan Ave, Buffalo, NY
- Birge-Horton House, 477 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY, NRHP-listed
- Brick Presbyterian Church, 6 Church St. Perry, NY, NRHP-listed
- Brost Building in the Broadway Historic District, Lancaster, New York
- Buffalo Athletic Club
- Buffalo Savings Bank Building
- Caldwell Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY, NRHP-listed
- Charles W. Goodyear House, Buffalo, NY
- Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
- Dun Building, 110 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY
- D.S. Morgan building,, Buffalo, NY
- Erie County Holding Center
- Fernow Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY, NRHP-listed
- Fidelity Trust Building, now known as "Swan Tower", 284 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
- Kibler High School, 284 Main St., Tonawanda, New York
- Marine National Bank, 1913
- Market Arcade Building, 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY
- Old West End District, Roughly bounded by Delaware, Collingwood, and Glenwood Aves. and Grove Pl. Toledo, OH, NRHP-listed
- Ransom School "Pagoda", 3575 Main Hwy. Miami, FL, NRHP-listed
- South Park High School
- Stephen Merrell Clement House, 1913, 786 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY, Extant as the Red Cross Building
- St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, 1313 Main St. Buffalo, NY
- University Club Building
- Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, New York)
- Watson-Curtze Mansion, 356 W. 6th St. Erie, PA, NRHP-listed
- Wing Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY, NRHP-listed
- Young Men's Christian Association Central Building, 45 W. Mohawk St. Buffalo, NY, NRHP-listed
- Abbot Hall / Lockwood Memorial Library, University at Buffalo, 1933
- Crosby Hall, University at Buffalo, 1931
- Electric Tower, 535 Washington St. Buffalo, NY, NRHP-listed
- Michael J. Dillon Memorial United States Courthouse, 68 Court Street, Buffalo NY
- Garret Club, 91 Cleveland Ave., Buffalo, NY, 1929
- Buffalo Memorial Auditorium,, Buffalo NY
- Parker Hall, University at Buffalo, 1945