Green and Wicks
Defunct American architectural firm in Buffalo, New York
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 (1912), Caldwell Hall (1913), the Computing and Communications Center (1912, originally known as Comstock Hall), Fernow Hall (1915), and the original Roberts Hall (1906, demolished 1990).
Green's best-known commissions were designed with his partner William Sydney Wicks (1854–1917), 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
The firm's records survive in the library collections of the Buffalo History Museum.
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 (Green & Wicks), 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 (Green and Wicks), NRHP-listed
Brick Presbyterian Church, 6 Church St. Perry, NY (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed
Brost Building (c.
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