Guilbert and Betelle
# Guilbert and Betelle

Guilbert and Betelle was an architecture firm formed as a partnership of Ernest F. Guilbert and James Oscar Betelle. The firm specialized in design of schools on the East Coast of the United States, with an emphasis on the "Collegiate Gothic" style.

Betelle took over the firm after Guilbert died in 1916, and oversaw design of hundreds of schools, including Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut and the Radburn School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable buildings for which the firm was responsible include the Essex County Hall of Records and the Essex Club (now home of the New Jersey Historical Society).

## Structures

The following is a list of structures designed by the firm, ordered by state and locality:

### Connecticut

* Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut) (NRHP-listed)
* Greenwich:

    Cos Cob School, c. 1916
    Greenwich High School (Greenwich Town Hall), c. 1925
* New Britain:

    State Normal School (Davidson Hall, CCSU), c. 1922

### Delaware

    Pierre S. duPont Rural Schools, c. 1919-1921
    William P. Bancroft School, c.1928
    Charles B. Lore School ('Lorelton' assisted living home), c. 1932

### New Jersey

* East Orange:

    East Orange High School (demolished), c. 1911
* Jersey City:

    State Normal School at Jersey City, c. 1930
* Newark:

    Newark Central High School, c. 1912
    Chamber of Commerce Building, c. 1923
    Cleveland School, c. 1913
    East Side High School, c. 1911
    The Essex Club (New Jersey Historical Society), c. 1926 (NRHP-listed)
    Essex County Boys Vocational School, c. 1931
    Essex County Girls Vocational School, c. 1930
    Essex County Hall of Records, c. 1926
    Home of Ernest F. Guilbert, c. 1910
    Home of Franklin Murphy, Jr., c. 1925
    Newark Normal School, c. 1913 (currently Technology High School)
    Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial Arts, c. 1931
    Ridge Street School, c. 1913
    Robert Treat Hotel, c. 1916
    South Side High School, c. 1913 (currently Malcolm X Shabazz High School)
    Weequahic High School, c. 1932
    West Side High School, c. 1926
* South Orange and Maplewood:

    Clinton Elementary, c. 1929
    Columbia High School, c. 1927
    First Street School, c. 1924
    Jefferson Elementary, c. 1924
    Montrose Elementary, c. 1924
    Maplewood Junior High, c.1930
    Maplewood Municipal Building, c.1931
    Marshall Elementary, c.1922
    South Mountain Elementary, c.1929
    Tuscan Elementary, c. 1924
* Summit:

    Franklin Elementary
    Jefferson Elementary
    Summit High School (Summit Middle School), c. 1923
    Washington Elementary, c. 1931
* Vineland:

    Vineland High School (the Landis School), c. 1927
    Thomas A. Edison Jr. High, c. 1927
* West Orange

    West Orange High School (Seton Hall Preparatory School)

### New York

* Bronxville

    The Bronxville School, c. 1930
* Great Neck

    Great Neck High School, c. 1926
* New Rochelle

    New Rochelle High School, c. 1926
* Tarrytown

    Washington Irving School, c. 1925

### Pennsylvania

* Williamsport:

    Thaddeus Stevens Jr. High School, c. 1927
    Science Hall, Lincoln University, c. 1925

### NRHP-listed

Duplicative to the above, the buildings designed by these architects which survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) are:

* Essex Club, Address Restricted Newark NJ Guilbert & Betelle
* Glenville School (Greenwich, Connecticut), 449 Pemberwick Rd. Greenwich CT Betelle, James Oscar
* Iron Hill School No. 112C, 1335 Old Baltimore Pike, Pencader Hundred Newark DE Betelle, James Oscar
* Charles B. Lore Elementary School, Fourth St. and Woodlawn Ave. Wilmington DE Guilbert and Betelle
* One or more buildings in Military Park (Newark) Commons Historic District, Roughly bounded by Washington Pl., McCarter Hwy, E. Park St. and Raymond Blvd. Newark NJ Guilbert and Betelle
* New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, N of Burlington Rd., W of I-295 Bordentown NJ Guilbert & Betelle
* Public School No. 111-C, DE 7 Christiana DE Betelle, James O.
* Ross Point School, Road 448 near Jct. with Road 62 Laurel DE Guilbert and Betelle
* Vineland High School, 61 W. Landis Ave. Vineland NJ Betelle, J.O.
