Goodhue Livingston

Goodhue Livingston (February 23, 1867 – June 3, 1951) was an American architect who co-founded the firm of Trowbridge & Livingston and designed the Hayden Planetarium.[1]

Goodhue Livingston
Born(1867-02-23)February 23, 1867
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 3, 1951(1951-06-03) (aged 84)
Southampton, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationArchitect
Spouse(s)Louisa Robb
Children2
PracticeTrowbridge & Livingston
BuildingsHayden Planetarium
Palace Hotel
St. Regis Hotel
The Knickerbocker Hotel

Early life
Oregon State Capitol

Livingston was born in New York City on February 23, 1867. He was the son of Robert Edward Livingston (1820–1889) and Susan Maria Clarkson de Peyster (1823–1910).[1][2] His siblings included Catharine Goodhue Livingston (1856–1931),[3] Robert Robert Livingston (1858–1899), who married Mary Tailer (1863–1944),[4][5] and Edward De Peyster Livingston (1861–1932).[6][7]

His paternal grandparents were Edward Philip Livingston (1779–1843), the 11th Lieutenant Governor of New York, and Elizabeth Stevens Livingston (1780–1829), the eldest daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. Their children included:[8]

Livingston received an A.B. in 1888, a Ph.B. in architecture 1892, and an M.A. in 1914, all from Columbia University.[1]

Career
Garden of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco
Bankers Trust Company Building, NYC

In 1894, Livingston co-founded Trowbridge, Livingston & Colt along with Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge (1862–1925), the son of William Petit Trowbridge. The firm became known for its commercial, public, and institutional buildings, many in a Beaux Arts or neoclassical style, including the B. Altman and Company Building (1905), J. P. Morgan Building (1913), and the Oregon State Capitol (1938). Often commissioned by well-heeled clients, the firm's work especially prevalent in the Upper East Side and Wall Street precincts of New York. He worked on the Equitable Trust Building, Morgan Building, Chemical National Bank Building, the St. Regis Hotel, The Knickerbocker Hotel, the Ardsley Club, B. Altman & Co.'s Building, the New York Stock Exchange addition, the Bank of America Building, and Rikers Island, before his retirement in 1946.[1]

In 1935, Livingston designed the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, located at West 81st Street and Central Park West.[9]

He was a trustee of the New York Dispensary and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects as well as a member of the Architectural League of New York, a governor of the Brook Club, and belonged to the National Institute of Social Sciences.[1]

Personal life

Livingston was married Louisa Robb (1877–1960).[10] She was the daughter of Cornelia Van Rensselaer (née Thayer) Robb and James Hampden Robb, former New York City Parks Commissioner and State Senator.[11] They lived at 38 East 65th Street and had a house in Southampton, New York.[12] Together, they were the parents of:[1]

  • Goodhue Livingston, Jr. (1897–1994),[13] who married Joan Livingston Allen (1898–1964), the daughter of Frederick Hobbes Allen in 1919.[14] They divorced in 1931 and in 1932 he married Lorna Mackay (1911–1986). They divorced in the 1950s and he married Ruth Monsch Gordon. They also divorced and, in 1966, he married Dorothy Michelson-Stevens-Bitter-Dick (d. 1994), the widow of William Dixon Stevens and the daughter of Albert A. Michelson.[15]
  • Cornelia Thayer Livingston (1903–1975), who married Frederic Cromwell Jr. (1900–1973), a son of Seymour L. Cromwell, in 1927.[12][16]

Livingston died on June 3, 1951 at the Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York.[1] His widow died on January 16, 1960 at her home at 720 Park Avenue.[15]

Descendants

Through his son Goodhue, he was the grandfather of Dr. Goodhue Livingston III (1920–2011), Louisa Anne Livingston (1934–2007), who married Moorhead Cowell Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1930) in 1955,[17] Lorna Livingston, Linda Livingston, who married Nicholas Homans Davis and Arthur Amory Houghton III,[15] and Kip Livingston (1938–2007), a former director of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington.[18]

Through his daughter Cornelia, he was the grandfather of Katherine Cromwell (b. 1928),[19] Florence Cromwell, Seymour Cromwell III (1934–1977),[20] and Cornelia Livingston Cromwell. Their eldest daughter, Katherine Cromwell, married David E. Moore in 1948,[21] a grandson of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. They had four children: Richard Moore, Katherine Cromwell Moore, David Elmslie Moore Jr., and Timothy Moore. Cornelia Livingston Cromwell married Dr. Richard Pillard (b. 1933) in 1958. The Pillards were the parents of three daughters, including Cornelia Pillard, a circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and formerly a Georgetown University Law Center professor and assistant to Attorney General Janet Reno. The Pillards later divorced and Richard became the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.[22]

References
Notes
  1. Times, Special To The New York (4 June 1951). "G. LIVINGSTON DIES; LONG AN ARCHITECT; Practitioner Here for 50 Years Included Hayden Planetarium, Oregon Capitol in His Work". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  2. "Mrs. Susan de Peyster Livingston". The New York Times. 11 February 1910. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  3. "MISS C.G. LIVINGSTON DEAD; ILL FOR YEARS; Member of a Noted Family Succumbs in Fifth Av. Home Where She Was Born". The New York Times. 18 December 1931. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  4. "MRS. LIVINGSTON HOSTESS.; Gives a Dance for Her Son, R. R. Livingston, and Fiancee, Miss Dean". The New York Times. 17 February 1922. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  5. "MRS. LIVINGSTON, 82, NURSERY ADVOCATE; Member of Noted Family Dies - Ex-Delegate Had Served on Democratic State Group". The New York Times. 19 October 1944. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. Times, Special To The New York (14 April 1909). "TAILER-BROWN WEDDING.; Guests Gather at Baltimore for the Ceremony To-day". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  7. "EDWARD LIVINGSTON DEAD AT FAMILY HOME; Was of Old and Distinguished New York AncestryuFu- neral Tomorrow". The New York Times. 20 January 1932. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  8. Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  9. White, Willensky & Leadon 2010, pp. 397.
  10. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1880. p. 155. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  11. "Mrs. Goodhue Livingston Dies; Aided Civic and Charity Causes". The New York Times. January 17, 1960. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  12. "MISS C. LIVINGSTON ENGAGED TO MARRY; To Wed Frederick Cromwell, Son of Late President of New York Stock Exchange". The New York Times. 18 August 1927. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  13. Pace, Eric (31 August 1994). "Goodhue Livingston, City Planner, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  14. Semans, Barbara Broome; Broom, Letitia (2009). John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: Their Descendants and Related Families 18th to 21st Centuries. p. 509. ISBN 9781462811137. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  15. Broome, Barbara Broome Semans; Letitia (2009). John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: Their Descendants and Related Families 18th to 21st Centuries. p. 672. ISBN 9781462811120. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  16. "MISS LIVINGSTON WEDS F. CROMWELL; Ceremony Performed by Dr. Land at Home of the Bride's Parents in Southampton". The New York Times. 21 August 1927. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  17. "Miss Livingston is Married Here; Attired in Ivory Silk Satin at Her Wedding to Moorhead Cowell Kennedy Jr". The New York Times. 9 June 1955. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  18. "Kip Livingston, Reserve Director". The Washington Post. 25 March 2007. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  19. "A Daughter to Mrs. F. Cromwell". The New York Times. 3 July 1928. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  20. "Son Born to Mrs. Cromwell". The New York Times. 22 February 1934. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  21. "Miss K. Cromwell, D. E. Moore Marry". The New York Times. 13 June 1948. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  22. Mass L (1990). Homophobia on the couch: A conversation with Richard Pillard, first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States. in Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution—Volume I (Gay & Lesbian Studies). Haworth Press, ISBN 0918393892
Sources
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  • White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199772919.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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