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Charles Alonzo Rich (October 22, 1854 – December 3, 1943) was an American architect who practiced in New York City from 1882 until 1933. Rich was a member of the Architectural League of New York. Rich was a partner in the New York architectural firm of Lamb & Rich, that mostly specialized in residential design.

Personal life

Rich was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and died at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 89.

Notable buildings

• Claremont Opera House (1897); Claremont, NH, a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
• Milbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske Halls (1897-1898), Barnard College; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
• Phi Delta Alpha (1902); the first purpose-built fraternity in New Hampshire, and the first fraternity on Dartmouth's "frat row" (Webster Avenue).
• Brooks Hall (1906-1907), Barnard College; listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
• Copshaholm, the Joseph Doty Oliver mansion in South Bend, Indiana (1895-1896); listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as an American Treasure

Notes

1. ^ Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 424, 426. ISBN 978-0-231-07850-4. OCLC 37843816.
2. "Charles William Romeyn Archived 2016-03-24 at the Wayback Machine," Brief Biographies of American Architects: Who Died Between 1897 and 1947, Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
3. Meacham, Scott B. "'The Shaping Hand Was at All Points the Same': Charles Alonzo Rich Builds the New Dartmouth," Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, April 1998, Vol. XXXVIII(NS) No. 2, ISSN 0011-6750. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
4. "Claremont Opera House History". Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
5. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
6. "Center for History". Northern Indiana Historical Society d/b/a Center for History, South Bend, Indiana. Archived from the original on 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2011-08-14.

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