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 dissolvedJames, Meadows & Howard Records
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. 1935) in the Broadway Historic District, Lancaster, New York Buffalo Athletic Club Buffalo Savings Bank Building Caldwell Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed Charles W. Goodyear House, Buffalo, NY Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio Dun Building, 110 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY D.S. Morgan building, (destroyed), Buffalo, NY Erie County Holding Center Fernow Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY (Green & Wicks), 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 (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed Ransom School "Pagoda", 3575 Main Hwy. Miami, FL (Greene & Wicks), 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 (Buffalo) Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, New York) Watson-Curtze Mansion, 356 W. 6th St. Erie, PA (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed Wing Hall, Cornell University campus Ithaca, NY (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed Young Men's Christian Association Central Building, 45 W. Mohawk St. Buffalo, NY (Green & Wicks), NRHP-listed
Notable works of the E.B. Green and Sons architectural firm include: Abbot Hall / Lockwood Memorial Library, University at Buffalo (South Campus), 1933 Crosby Hall, University at Buffalo (South Campus), 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
Notable works of the Green & James architectural firm include: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, (destroyed), Buffalo NY Parker Hall, University at Buffalo (South Campus), 1945
Gallery
See also Esenwein & Johnson
References
External links E.B. Green at www.buffaloah.com Green & Wicks: A bibliography courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum. James, Meadows & Howard Collections at the Buffalo History Museum. This is the name that the firm had from 1952-1974.