Clinton and Russell was a well-known architectural firm founded in 1894 inNew York City, United States. The firm was responsible for several New York City buildings, including some inLower Manhattan.

Charles W. Clinton (1838–1910) was born and raised in New York and received his formal architectural training in the office ofRichard Upjohn. He left Upjohn in 1858 to begin a private practice, and from then through 1894 he conducted his own significant career, the highpoint of which was probably the 1880Seventh Regiment Armory.

William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907) was born in New York City as well. He attended theColumbia School of Mines before he joined his great uncle,James Renwick, in his architecture firm in 1878. At Columbia, Russell had been a member ofSt. Anthony Hall, the secret fraternal college society, and within a year of his joining his great uncle's firm, in 1879, Renwick completed the first St. A's Chapter House, at 25 East 28th Street, likely with Russell involved in the design work.^[1]

In New York City's ambitious building boomc. 1900, Clinton and Russell were responsible for designing the world's largest apartment building, the world's largest office building, and a cluster of early downtown skyscrapers along Broadway and Wall Street for banks and insurance companies. Many of the firm's important commissions related to real estate investments of theAstor family. The landmarkAstor Hotel that served as an anchor for the development ofTimes Square, the Astor Apartments, theGraham Court Apartments, andThe Apthorp were among their projects forWilliam Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor. Stylistically, much of their work conformed to a conservative ItalianNeo-Renaissance style.^[2]

In 1919, the firm designed a 25-story clubhouse in Times Square for the National Council of Traveling Salesmen, at a cost of around $5 million.^[3]

After the deaths of the principals, the firm continued in business, and in 1926 it was renamedClinton Russell Wells Holton & George (and variations of that name). For a time the English-born Colonel James Hollis Wells (1864-1926) headed the organization; theLillian Sefton Dodge Estate on Long Island is his design. The firm remained in existence until 1940.

One of the firm's earliest employees wasAbraham H. Albertson, who started there as adraftsman and went on to be a prolific architect inSeattle.^[4]Edward Warren Young was working with the firm around 1919.^[5]

• Fahys Building, 52-54 Maiden Lane, 1894–96 (razed)
• Sampson Building, 63-65 Wall Street, 1898 (razed)^[6]
• Hudson Building, 32-34 Broadway, 1896–98
• Exchange Court Building, 52-56 Broadway, 1896–98 (altered, now the Exchange Apartments)^[6]
• Woodbridge Building, William and Platt Streets, NYC, 1898 (razed in 1970)
• Curzon House, facade redesign of #4 East 62nd Street, NYC,^[7] 1898
• the Franklin Building, 9-15 Murray Street, 1898
• the Chesebrough Building, 13-19 State Street,Battery Park, NYC, 1899 (razed)^[8]
• Graham Court Apartments,^[7] 1899-1901
• Medbery Hall, Dorm Building forHobart College, 1900
• Broad Exchange Building, #25 Broad Street, New York City, 1900
• Coxe Hall, Administrative and Classroom Building forHobart College, 1901
• American Exchange National Bank Building 128 Broadway, 1901 (razed)
• the 18-story Atlantic Building, aka the Mutual Insurance Building, Wall and William Streets, 1901^[9]
• Astor Apartments,^[7] 1901-1905
• Wall Street Exchange Building, 43-49 Exchange Place, 1903^[6]
• 1 Wall Street Court,^[2][7][10] 1904
• Hotel Astor, New York City, 1904, expanded 1909-1910 (razed 1967)
• 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, Park Avenue and 34th Street, NYC, 1905 (razed 1976)
• The Langham Apartments,^[7] one of the towering apartment buildings lining Central Park West between West 73rd andWest 74th Streets, 1905-1907
• U.S. Express Company Building, 2 Rector Street, 1905–07
• TheApthorp Apartments,^[7] briefly the largest apartment building in the world, NYC, 1906-1908
• Consolidated Stock Exchange Building, 61-69 Broad Street, 1907 (razed)
• Lawyers' Title Insurance & Trust Company, 160 Broadway, NYC, 1908^[9]
• the 31-storyWhitehall Building Annex,^[7] 1908-1910
• theHudson Terminal in lower Manhattan, the world's largest office building by floor area when built in 1908, razed in 1972 for theWorld Trade Center
• Whyte's Restaurant, Fulton Street, designed as a "half-timbered English village inn", 1910^[9]
• redesign ofClarence True's 103-104Riverside Drive,^[7] 1910-1911
• Otis Elevator Building, 260 Eleventh Avenue, 1911-1912^[11]
• East River Savings Bank Building, NW corner of Broadway and Reade Streets, 1911^[9]
• portions of theElks National Home,Bedford, Virginia, 1916
• The Lenox Hotel (later The Lenox Apartments; now, The Lenox Condominiums), 1917. 250 S. 13th Street (at Spruce Street) Philadelphia, PA
• Mecca Masonic Temple (1923) in collaboration with the architectHarry P. Knowles,^[7] now known asNew York City Center
• Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate,Mill Neck,Nassau County, New York,^[12] 1923
• The Level Club, New York City,^[7] 1927
• Herald Square Building, 1350 Broadway, New York City, 1928-1930
• Cities Service Building/American International Building,70 Pine Street, New York City, 1930-1932^[7]
• 7 East 67th Street facade.^[7]

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