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Alfredo S. G. Taylor

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Alfredo S. G. Taylor
Alfredo S. G. Taylor at Holbrook Camp II, 1936
Born1872 (1872)
Died1947 (aged 74–75)
Alma materHarvard College (BA)
Columbia University (BS)
OccupationArchitect
PracticeTaylor & Levi

Alfredo S. G. Taylor (1872–1947)[1] was an architect, of the New York firm Taylor & Levi, which he co-founded with Julian Clarence Levi.[2]

He was educated at Harvard College, class of 1894, and received his B.S. from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1897.[3]

Many of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[4][5] At least two, the Starling W. Childs House and the Frederick W. Rockwell House, both in Norfolk, Connecticut, were documented in the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey.[6]

"Sport house" of Starling Childs, Norfolk, Connecticut, in 1930
Frederick W. Rockwell House

Hillside (Norfolk, Connecticut), was designed by Taylor for an heiress of the Remington Arms business fortune, and was built in 1908. It is one of his more "spectacular" houses.[7]

Taylor was the designer of over thirty buildings in Norfolk, Connecticut, in a wide variety of styles, in the four decades before the Second World War. He designed a lavish summer pavilion in Norfolk's Dennis Hill State Park, of which only remnants survive.

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  1. ^ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/64000099_text
  2. ^ "Julian Clarence Levi architectural drawings and papers, 1895-1963 | Avery Drawings & Archives Collections | Columbia University Libraries Finding Aids". findingaids.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  3. ^ Officers and Graduates of Columbia University, Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College: General Catalogue ... New York. 1916. p. 783.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Taylor, Alfredo S. G., TR
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  6. ^ "Search Results: "Taylor%20%26%20Levi" - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)". Library of Congress.
  7. ^ D. Ransom (October 19, 1978). "Connecticut Historical Commission Historic Resources Inventory: Hillside". National Park Service. and Accompanying two photos, exterior, from 1978