Born in New York City, Stern was educated at Columbia University and then Yale. He was a well-known author and teacher before starting his own practice. He believes in design as a process of cultural assimilation and that architecture is a…
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was a prominent New York architect who studied at Harvard and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the architect of St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University (1904-07).
Sturgis had a twenty-year partnership with Charles Brigham as the firm Sturgis & Brigham. The firm concentrated on fine domestic architecture, most of the houses being around the Back Bay quarter of Boston and in Newport. They produced fine public…