Thom & Wilson

Thom & Wilson, the New York City-based architectural office of Arthur M. Thom and James W. Wilson,[1] was a prolific partnership that turned out numerous brownstones in somewhat generic Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles.

The firm's most prominent commission was the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts (or "New Criminal Courts Building"), a grand, five-story Beaux-Arts structure with two sculpted pediments, situated on a full block between Centre, Franklin Street, Elm (now Lafayette), and White Streets in the Civic Center of Manhattan.

Other significant work by the firm includes their Harlem Courthouse, 170 East 121st Street (1891–93, standing)[3] "one of the most impressive buildings in East Harlem"[4] and The Nevada (1891, demolished) on the triangular plot bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue and 69th and 70th streets.

In many of their projects they were providing an architectural shell for highly standardized floorplans, for commercial entrepreneurs engaged in speculative building.

An unsigned article attributed to the contemporary critic Montgomery Schuyler considered the firm mere "architectural contractors.