(rshsdepot) Stockbridge, MA depot architect

[jdent1_@_optonline.net]

Please read the 3 emails below regarding the architect of the Stockbridge depot.  Does anyone have more information or sources for information on Frank Waller, or for the assertions of which architect designed the depot?

Thanks,
Jim Dent
Oakland, NJ

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joan Olshansky <jrol_@_verizon.net>
> To: jdent1_@_optonline.net <jdent1@optonline.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:34 PM
> Subject: depot architects
> 
> Sir:  In the course of publishing a brochure of historic 
> properties of the
> Gilded Age in Lenox and Stockbridge Massachusetts, I discovered 
> who the
> previously unknown architect of the Stockbridge station/depot 
> (HousatonicRailroad) was but have been unable to find other 
> buildings he may have
> designed.  The architect was Frank Waller who had a long and 
> successful career as an artist before he took up architecture in 
> 1887.  He designed the
> Stockbridge station in 1892.  Do you know if he designed any other 
> stations?(Your link to station architects is not working.)  Thank 
> you for any help
> you may provide.  Joan Olshansky
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Dent [jdent1_@_optonline.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:55 PM
> To: Joan Olshansky
> Subject: Re: depot architects
> 
> Joan,
> 
> In Janet Potter's 1996 book "Great American Railroad Stations" the
> Stockbridge depot is listed as being designed by New York City's 
> McKim, Mead
> & White, the well known architectural firm.  Was Waller an 
> employee of the
> NYC firm?
> 
> Jim Dent
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Joan Olshansky <jrol_@_verizon.net>
>Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:28 am
>Subject: RE: depot architects
>
> Jim:  the book is wrong; it definitely was not done by MM&W but by 
> Frank Waller.  An article in the American Architect and Building 
> News includes a
> drawing of the station signed by Waller and the local newspaper 
> contains many articles about the building of the station and the 
> architect, Frank
> Waller.  It has been a hope of some Stockbridge residents that 
> Stanford White was responsible for the station, as he had done 
> other buildings in
> town but unfortunately, it was the unknown Waller.  Joan Olshansky


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