R. H. Robertson

Robert Henderson Robertson (April 29, 1849 – June 3, 1919) was an American architect who designed numerous houses, institutional and commercial buildings, and churches.

He is known for his wide-variety of works and commissions, ranging from private residences such as Jacqueline Kennedy's childhood home Hammersmith Farm and the Adirondacks Great Camp Santanoni, great civic buildings like Southport's Pequot Library for the Marquand Family to some of the earliest steel skyscrapers in New York City.

Their partnership lasted from 1875 to 1881, during which time they worked mostly in a free Gothic Revival style, with Robertson as the junior partner responsible for the firm's residential commissions.

Richardson's "Richardsonian Romanesque" a freely-handled revival style that depended for its effect on strong massing and the bold use of rustication.

[4] Robertson died on June 3, 1919, at William S. Webb's Adirondack lodge in Nehasane, Hamilton County, New York, which he had designed.

The Park Row Building in New York, designed by Robertson (completed 1899)
Witherspoon Hall of Princeton University (Potter & Robertson, built 1875–77)
The Charles H. Baldwin House in Newport, Rhode Island (Potter & Robertson, built 1877–78)
The Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey (Potter & Robertson, completed 1879)
Camp Santanoni main lodge, for Robert C. Pruyn (built 1892–93)
Robertson's 1886 designs for a church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The main church was never built, but the chapel was, as Knox Presbyterian Church, now St. John the Martyr Roman Catholic Church (Manhattan) .
The "eclectic" MacIntyre Building at 874 Broadway (built 1890–92) contains Byzantine , Romanesque and Gothic elements [ 1 ]
American Tract Society Building at 150 Nassau Street (built 1894–1895)
Engine Company 55 Firehouse at 363 Broome Street (completed 1895)
Bedford Park Presbyterian Church
Pequot Library Association (1894)