Frank A. Rooke
Frank Aydelott Rooke, known professionally as Frank A. Rooke, was a New York architect who designed the historic Claremont Riding Academy[1] and numerous other structures of significance that are either in National Historic Districts or listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the tri-state area.[2]
Frank A. Rooke
1862
1946
Architect
Designed historic Claremont Stables, 175 West 89th Street, New York, NY
Gertrude Walker Rooke
Walker Rooke
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Early life[edit]
Rooke was born in 1862 in Rye, New York.
He opened an office at 1262 Broadway in Manhattan in 1887.[3] That year he designed a building combining a store, a stable, and apartments for Loton Horton of the Horton Ice Cream Co., at 371 Amsterdam Avenue,[4] in the Upper West Side–Central Park West Historic District (designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission).
Higgs & Rooke[edit]
Rooke formed a brief but productive partnership with architect Paul Franklyn Higgs in 1888. Over the next 2 years, they designed several buildings together which today are in recognized national historic districts. in 1889–90, they planned a Flemish/Romanesque Revival style apartment building at 373–375 Amsterdam Avenue, for Rooke's patron Horton.[5]
The two architects designed a row of seven houses built in 1889 at 669–681 10th Street in what is now the Park Slope Historic District in Brooklyn.[6]
In 1890, they created a pair of houses on West 92nd Street and a single house on West 77th Street in Manhattan.
That same year they drafted plans for 5 row houses on West 147th Street in the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District for one client named Dennis J. Dwyer. Dwyer lived in one of the buildings at 430 West 147th Street, after it was finished; his house was created in the Renaissance Revival style while the other 4 - numbers 422, 424, 426 and 428 - were Romanesque Revival with arched windows on the second floors.[7]
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Claremont Stables[edit]
In 1892, Rooke returned to private practice and designed the Claremont Stables as well as adjacent private stables at 167, 169, and 171 West 89th Street.[5][2]
Other work[edit]
Although the majority of his designs were for New York City clients, Rooke did some residential work in Westchester and New Jersey.
Rooke's last known commissions were an alteration to a four-story commercial building at 130 West 45th Street in 1934,[3]: 3 and a 1934–36 alteration of the one-story 433 W. 127th Street to three stories for the Horton Pilsner Company.[14] Sheffield Farms replaced Rooke's 57th Street plant in 1937 with a massive new milk plant designed by a different architectural firm.[3]
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