View source for Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), Architect

<div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">'''Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City, New York'''</div style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:125%">


Henry Ives Cobb was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1859.[[#References|[4]]] Cobb studied at the prestigious  Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the equally prestigious Harvard University.[[#References|[4]]] He worked with Peabody & Sterns, Architects, in Boston, Massachusetts for a short time before moving to Chicago, where he started his own practice and became nationally recognized.[[#References|[4]]] The Newberry Library, the Chicago Opera House, and the University of Chicago are among his notable Chicago commissions.[[#References|[4]]]  Cobb died in New York on March 27, 1931.[[#References|[4]]]

This page is a contribution to the publication, '''[[Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects]]'''. See the [[Format and contents of Nebraska architect entries|format and contents]] page for more information on the compilation and page organization.
[[File:BL12_w.jpg|thumb|center|upright=2.750|alt=BL12_w.jpg|Offutt - Yost House, 1894-1895 (''Lynn Meyer'')]]
==Buildings & Projects==
[[:File:BL12_w.jpg|'''Charles Offutt – Casper Yost house (1894-1895)''']], 140 N 39th, Omaha, Nebraska.[[#References|[1][2][3]]] (D009:0321-003)

[[:File:CudahyEAHs23July1899OWHp27.jpg|'''Edward A. Cudahy house (1898-1899)''']], South 37th & Dewey Streets, Omaha, Nebraska.[[#References|[6]]][[#Notes|[b]]]

==Notes==
a. Some sources also attribute the Guy C. Barton house of 1899 to Cobb as well. More definitive sources, however, show ''that'' house was actually built for John Withnell, and was designed by [[Fisher & Lawrie, Architects]].[[#References|[5]]]

b. The ''Omaha World-Herald'' published a photo of Cudahy's house on July 23, 1899, crediting the design to '''[[Fisher & Lawrie, Architects]]'''. A week later the same newspaper published a gracious correction/letter to the editor from those Omaha architects, addressed to Editor World-Herald: "Among the illustrations of recent Omaha residences designed by us, and published in your unexcelled issue of Sunday, you included that of Mr. E. A. Cudahy, his house was designed by Mr. '''Henry Ives Cobb''' of Chicago and in justice to that talented architect we desire that your give this communication the same publicity which you so generously accorded us. Yours truly, FISHER & LAWRIE."

==References==
1.  From microfilm list of bldg permits.

2.  Landmarks, Inc., ''An Inventory of Historic Omaha Buildings'' (Omaha: City of Omaha, and Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, 1980), 35.

3.  City of Omaha Planning Department, Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission, Database, Query on Architects, May 20, 2002; courtesy of Lynn Meyer, Preservation Planner. 

4.  “Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947,” Transcribed from the ''American Art Annual'' by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Society of Architectural Historians website, accessed September 14, 2011, http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=BiographiesArchitects&category=Resources

5. See Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey file DO09:0210-001.

6. "A Correction...Mr. E. A. Cudahy, his house was designed by Mr. Henry Ives Cobb...," ''Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald'' (July 30, 1899), 8.

7. "Residence of E. A. Cudahy, Thirty-Seventh Street, Completed this Summer. ([[Fisher & Lawrie, Architects|'''Fisher & Lawrie''']], Architects)," ''Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald'' (July 23, 1899), 27.

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