Cobb and Frost
{{Short description|American architectural firm}}Image:Potter Palmer Mansion old.jpg
Image:ChicagoOperaHouse.jpg Cobb and Frost was an American architectural firm. Cobb and Frost was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost in 1882. The firm was dissolved in 1889 when Cobb began work on designing the Newberry Library.[http://www.newberry.org/collections/ArchitecturalHist.html The Architectural History of the Newberry Library, The Newberry Library Bulletin, November 1962, By Houghton Wetherold] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170010/http://www.newberry.org/collections/ArchitecturalHist.html |date=2008-10-10 }} Their most famous building was the Palmer Mansion, designed for Chicago industrialist Potter Palmer.
Selected buildings
- Palmer Mansion, 1882
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1884
- Chicago Opera House, 1884-5
- Chicago & Alton Railway Station, Dwight, Illinois, 1885{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|date=2011-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195335798|pages=495|language=en}}
- Cable House, 1886
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1887{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIs5AAAAMAAJ|title=Buildings and Structures of American Railroads: A Reference Book for Railroad Managers, Superintendents, Master Mechanics, Engineers, Architects, and Students|date=1893-01-01|publisher=J. Wiley & Sons|pages=325|language=en}}
- Harriet F. Rees House, 1888
- Dearborn Observatory, 1888
- Union Depot, 201 South Main Street, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1888{{Cite book|title = Great American Railroad Stations|last = Potter|first = Janet Greenstein|publisher = John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|year = 1996|isbn = 978-0471143895|location = New York|pages = 328}}
- Chicago & North Western Railway Station, Wheaton, Illinois