{{Short description|American architect (1861–1933)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{infobox architect | image = Edward Lippincott Tilton (cropped).tif | caption = | birth_date = {{birthdate|1861|10|19}} | birth_place = [[New York City]] | death_date = {{dda|1933|01|05|1861|10|19}} | death_place = [[Scarsdale, New York]] | education = [[École des Beaux-Arts]] | significant_buildings = [[Ellis Island]] | practice = [[McKim, Mead & White]]<br>[[Boring & Tilton]]<br>[[Tilton & Githens]] | signature = Signature of Edward Lippincott Tilton.png }}
'''Edward Lippincott Tilton''' (October 19, 1861 – January 5, 1933) was an American architect and archaeologist, with a practice in [[New York City]], where he was born.<ref>The monograph is Lisa B. Mausolf with Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, ''Edward Lippincott Tilton A Monograph on His Architectural Practice'', 2007 ([https://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/documents/etilton_monograph.pdf on-line text]).</ref> He specialized in the design of libraries, completing about one hundred in the U.S. and Canada, including many [[Carnegie libraries]] and structures for educational institutions.<ref name="Mausolf Hengen">[http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/about/Tiltonmonograph.pdf Lisa B. Mausolf and Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, "Edward Lippincott Tilton: A Monograph on His Architectural Practice", 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927051548/http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabody/about/Tiltonmonograph.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }} (pdf file)</ref>
==Early life== Tilton was the son of Benjamin W. Tilton and Mary ({{nee}} Baker) Tilton.<ref name="ELTObit1933"/>
At the age of 18, he started working in the banking house of Corlies Macy & Co.<ref name="ELTObit1933"/>
==Career== In about 1881, Tilton abandoned a budding career in banking to work as a draftsman in the office of [[McKim, Mead & White]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Tilton and Boring / Tilton and Githens |url=http://www.opendurham.org/businesses/tilton-and-boring-tilton-and-githens |website=Open Durham |accessdate=April 30, 2018}}</ref> a traditional apprenticeship for which he prepared with a private tutor in architecture and which prepared him for a course of further study at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]], Paris (1887–1890). Early commissions came through family connections; they included the casino (1891–92) in Belle Haven, an affluent shoreline community of [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], and the Hotel Colorado in the resort of [[Glenwood Springs, Colorado]] (1891–93).<ref name="Mausolf Hengen" />
He and the partner that he met in Paris, [[William A. Boring]], won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on [[Ellis Island]] in [[New York Harbor]]. Four major buildings were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. He served as president of the [[American Institute of Architects]].<ref name="ELTObit1933"/>
He published his thoughts on library planning and construction, in ''Essentials in Library Planning'' with A.E. Bostwick and S.H Ranck (1928), and "Library Planning" posthumously published in the ''Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects'' (1936).
== Works == Tilton worked in the partnership '''Boring & Tilton''' (1881–1904), as a solo architect, in the partnership '''Tilton & Githens''' (1916–1932), then again briefly in solo practice as consulting architect until his death.<ref name="ELTObit1933">{{cite news |title=EDWARD L. TILTON, ARCHITECT, DEAD Designed 60 Library Buildings and 30 Liberty Theatres for War Cantonments. ARCHAEOLOGIST OF NOTE Helped Restore Site of Argive Heraeum in Greece--Drew Plans for Ellls Island Station. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/06/archives/edward-lt1lton-architect-dead-designed-60-library-buildings-and-30.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 6, 1933 |page=19}}</ref>
===Boring & Tilton (1881–1904)=== [[File:0324New York City Ellis Island.JPG|thumb|United States Immigration Station, [[Ellis Island]], 1897-1900]] * U.S. Immigration Station on [[Ellis Island]] in [[New York Harbor]]: ** Main Building (1897–1900) ** Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900–01) ** Main Powerhouse (1900–01) ** Main Hospital Building (1900–01) * [[Bayonne Public Library]], Bayonne, New Jersey, 1904
===Tilton (1904–1916)=== [[File:CCNY Campus.jpg|thumb|right|Feth Hall, [[Concordia College (New York)|Concordia College]]]] * [[Ludington Public Library]], Ludington, Michigan, 1906 * [[Olean Public Library]], Olean, New York, 1907 * [[Concordia College (New York)|Concordia College]] campus, [[Bronxville, New York]], 1908<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.concordia-ny.edu/about/campus-facilities.cfm |title=Concordia College Facilities |accessdate=February 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223094210/http://www.concordia-ny.edu/about/campus-facilities.cfm |archive-date=February 23, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Carnegie Science Hall (renamed to Stuart Hall in 1977) at [[Coe College]], [[Cedar Rapids]], [[Iowa]], 1910<ref>[https://www.coe.edu/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map/stuart-hall], Stuart Hall.</ref> * [[Elizabeth Public Library]], Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1912 * [[Springfield City Library]], Springfield, Massachusetts, 1912<ref>[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=spr.176 SPR.176], Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System (MACRIS).</ref> * [[Sioux City Free Public Library]], Sioux City, Iowa, 1913 * [[Manchester City Library#Carpenter Memorial Building (1914-present)|Carpenter Memorial Library]], Manchester, New Hampshire, 1914 (with architect [[Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb]])<ref name="Mausolf Hengen" /> * [[Franklin Library (Minneapolis)|Franklin Library]], Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914 * [[Belmar Public Library]], Belmar, New Jersey, 1914 * [[Bond Hall (University of Notre Dame)|Bond Hall]], [[University of Notre Dame]], South Bend, Indiana, 1915 * [http://www.trentonlib.org/ Trenton Free Public Library] (John Lambert Cadwalader addition), Trenton, New Jersey, 1915
===Tilton & Githens (1916–1932)=== [[File:Knight Memorial Library Providence.jpg|thumb|Knight Memorial Library, Providence Rhode Island (1924)]] * Peabody Library, [[George Peabody College for Teachers]] (now part of [[Vanderbilt University]]), Nashville, Tennessee, 1919 * Chester C. Corbin Public Library, [[Webster Municipal Buildings Historic District|Webster, Massachusetts]], 1920 * Riley Hall of Art and Design, [[University of Notre Dame]], South Bend, Indiana, 1920 * [[St. Luke's Lutheran Church]], NYC, 1922 * Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, Delaware, 1923 * Knight Memorial Library, [[Providence, Rhode Island]], 1924<ref>{{cite web |title=Knight Memorial Library: History |url=https://www.provcomlib.org/sites/default/files/knight_memorial_library_brochure.pdf |website=Providence Public Library |accessdate=June 16, 2020 |location=Providence, Rhode Island |format=brochure |quote=Knight Memorial Library, designed by noted library architect Edward Tilton, opened in 1924}}</ref> * [[Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.)|Mount Pleasant Library]], Washington DC, 1925 * McGregor Public Library, [[Highland Park, MI]], 1926 * [[Currier Museum of Art]], Manchester, New Hampshire, 1929 * Central Library, [[Enoch Pratt Free Library]], Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1933
==Personal life== In 1901, he married Mary Eastman Bigelow. Together, they were the parents of a son:<ref name="ELTObit1933"/>
* Charles Edward Tilton (1905–2000), an architect who was a graduate of [[Swarthmore College]] and the [[Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation|Columbia University School of Architecture]].<ref name="CETObit2000">{{cite news |title=ARCHITECT CHARLES TILTON DIES IN CONNECTICUT |url=https://stthomassource.com/content/2000/02/11/architect-charles-tilton-dies-connecticut/ |access-date=22 October 2025 |work=St. Thomas Source |date=11 February 2000}}</ref>
Tilton died of [[pneumonia]] at his home, 89 Greenacres Avenue in [[Scarsdale, New York]] on January 5, 1933.<ref name="ELTObit1933"/>
== Notes == {{reflist|2}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Lippincott Tilton}}
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