The firm that would become Lockwood, Greene & Company was established in 1871 in Boston as the mechanical engineering practice of Amos D. Lockwood. Lockwood, a native of Rhode Island, was self-trained in mechanical engineering and had extensive experience managing textile manufacturing and construction operations. Extenuating circumstances obligated him to move his residence to Providence in 1873 to manage his manufacturing interests.[1]
His office remained in Boston until 1875, when he relocated it to Providence, where he established A. D. Lockwood & Company to manage all of his business interests. His partner was John W. Danielson, his son-in-law, who had at least fifteen years of similar experience. In 1879 Lockwood hired the engineer Stephen Greene,[a] formerly associated with civil engineers Niles B. Schubarth and David M. Thompson. March 1, 1882, a new partnership was organized between Lockwood, Danielson and Greene, known as Lockwood, Greene & Company. Lockwood died January 16, 1884, in Providence. In 1886 Greene moved to Newburyport to be closer to the firm's business interests. In 1889 Danielson retired, selling his interest to Greene. The following January Greene moved the office to Boston, where it would remain. Lockwood, Greene & Company was incorporated January 1, 1901, in Massachusetts. Stephen Greene was the first president, and Frank E. Shedd the first vice president. Stephen Greene died unexpectedly November 7, 1901, at his home in Newton Center, where he had lived since relocating in 1890.[b] His eldest son, Edwin Farnham Greene, was elected president in January, 1902.[c]
In 1892 George W. Stevens, former engineer for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, was hired as general superintendent of construction for southern work.[3] When Stevens died in 1897,[d] Joseph Emory Sirrene of Greenville, South Carolina, was hired as his replacement the following year. In 1899, when a southern office was established, it was established at Greenville under Sirrene's direction.[1]
The first twenty years of Edwin F. Greene's presidency was a period of major growth of the company. Lockwood, Greene & Company had established its first branch office in 1899, at Greenville, South Carolina, to serve as the firm's southern office. This was followed by a third office in Chicago in 1911,[4] and in 1912 the southern office was relocated to Atlanta[1] and the Boston office was moved into the new First National Bank Annex at 60 State Street,[e] taking three full floors of the new building.[6] In 1913 offices were added in Montreal[7] and New York.[8] In 1919, after the close of World War I, offices were added at Cleveland, Detroit and Paris, the latter to manage reconstruction work. In 1920, offices were added at Charlotte and Philadelphia. In 1923, the southern headquarters was moved from Atlanta to Spartanburg, though the Atlanta office was retained.[1]
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In 1915, Greene organized a new Lockwood, Greene & Company Inc., with four subsidiary companies: Lockwood, Greene & Company, engineers, for design and construction; Lockwood, Greene & Company, managers, for management of manufacturing facilities owned or leased by the firm; Lockwood, Greene & Company of Canada Ltd. for foreign work; and the Greelock Company, a holding company for mill securities.[1]
In 1918 Frank W. Reynolds, an employee since 1885 and head of the drafting room since the 1890s, encouraged the establishment of an architectural department. To lead this, in early 1919 Walter W. Cook was hired.[f] This new department was in charge of exterior design in collaboration with the firm's other engineers.[1]
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In the 1920s, textile manufacturing revenues declined in New England and elsewhere, leaving the firm in a precarious financial condition. In early 1926, with the company under the control of a creditor's committee, the engineering and management subsidiaries were dissolved, their assets merged with those of the parent company. Edwin F. Green stepped down as president, and Albert L. Scott,[g] chairman of the former engineering subsidiary, succeeded him. Several branch offices were closed. These changes proved to be insufficient, and conditions worsened. By 1928, only the engineering department was generating a profit. As a result of these realities, in 1928 the firm was again reorganized. A new holding company, Building Engineers Inc., was formed by the directors, to which the engineering department sold. This new organization was then named Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc.[11] Within a month, Lockwood, Greene & Company gave up management of its remaining mills, effective October 1, 1928, leaving the old firm solely a holding company for mill securities.[12] Additionally, at this time the New York office was designated headquarters in place of Boston.[1]
In the reorganization the architectural department was merged with the engineers, and Walter W. Cook and his chief assistant George F. Blount left to establish their own firm, known as Cook & Blount, in New York.[1] Their work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[13]
After the death of Scott in 1946 his replacement as president was Chester S. Allen.[14][h] In 1949 Allen was succeeded by Samuel B. Lincoln.[i][15] William J. Heiser was elected president in 1955,[j][16] J. Robert Potter in 1961,[k][17] and H. Morgan Rogers Jr. in 1968.[18] In the decades after World War II, the company once again grew rapidly.[1]
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In 1973, Morgan moved the headquarters to Spartanburg from New York.[19] In 1981 Lockwood Greene was acquired by Philipp Holzmann AG, a German contractor. In 1982, Donald R. Luger was elected president to succeed Morgan.[20] In January 1999 Holzmann merged Lockwood Greene with J.A. Jones Construction of Charlotte, North Carolina, a property of Holzmann since 1979.[21] The last president of the company was Fred M. Brune, named to that office in June of the same year.[22] Holzmann declared insolvency not long after and was liquidated in 2002. Facing its own problems, Jones declared bankruptcy in 2003, after which Lockwood Greene was sold to CH2M Hill at a cost of $95.5 million.[23] In 2007 the firm was renamed CH2M Hill Engineers. It became CH2M Engineers in 2015, and was folded into Jacobs Engineering Group in 2017 along with the rest of CH2M.
Amity Leather Products Company Factory, 723-735 S. Main St. West Bend, Wisconsin (Lockwood Greene), NRHP-listed
Arlington Mills Historic District, Broadway between Manchester, Stafford and Chase Sts. Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts (Lockwood-Green Company), NRHP-listed
One or more works in Shawmut Historic District, Roughly bounded by 25th Blvd., 29th Blvd., 20th Ave., 35th St., and 38th Blvd. Valley, Alabama (Lockwood, Greene & Company), NRHP-listed
One or more works in Stark Mill and Mill Village Historic District, Roughly bounded by Lincoln, Askew, Church, Keith, and Brazil Sts, Whaley Ave. and the Hogansville city limits Hogansville, Georgia (Lockwood, Greene & Co.), NRHP-listed
Structural Science Building, Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina (Lockwood, Green and Company), NRHP-listed
^Stephen Greene was born September 27, 1851, in Hope, Rhode Island, to Alvin and Maria (Arnold) Greene. His father was a mill operative and superintendent. He was raised in mill villages in Rhode Island and Maine, and educated at home and in the district schools. Greene and his brothers also worked part time in the mills. After leaving the Westerly High School he entered Brown University in 1870 to study civil engineering. After leaving Brown in 1873 he joined the office of civil engineer and architect Niles B. Schubarth as junior partner. In 1874 he married Schubarth's daughter. In 1875 he moved to the office of mill engineer David M. Thompson, and was superintendent of construction for the new Elizabeth Mill at Hillsgrove in 1876. After his first son was born he returned to Providence to work for Lockwood.[2]
^Greene's family home, built in 1892, still stands at 1038 Centre Street.[2]
^Chester Salisbury Allen was born November 25, 1881 in Massachusetts. He joined Lockwood, Greene & Company as an engineer in 1910. He died January 6, 1952, in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
^Judith T. Bainbridge, "Lockwood Greene," The South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006), also at South Carolina Encyclopedia.
^Carolyn Farr Smith, "Lockwood Greene, J.A. Jones to merge," goupstate.com, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, January 19 1999, accessed June 12 2021.
^Carolyn Farr Smith, "Consulting firm president has grand designs for the future A new leader at Lockwood Greene," goupstate.com, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, July 24 1999, accessed June 12 2021.
^"CH2M Hill Wins Prize In Bankruptcy Contest Lockwood Greene is sold by bankrupt J.A. Jones for $95.5 million as bid trumps two competitors," enr.com, Engineering News-Record, December 22 2003, accessed June 12 2021.
^"National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/01/14 through 12/05/14. National Park Service. 2014-12-12.
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lockwood, greene, lockwood, greene, company, american, engineering, firm, active, under, various, names, from, 1871, 2017, lockwood, greene, companyindustryengineeringpredecessora, lockwood, lockwood, companyfounded1871founderamos, lockwooddefunct2017successor. Lockwood Greene amp Company was an American engineering firm It was active under various names from 1871 to 2017 Lockwood Greene amp CompanyIndustryEngineeringPredecessorA D Lockwood A D Lockwood amp CompanyFounded1871FounderAmos D LockwoodDefunct2017SuccessorLockwood Greene Engineers CH2M Hill Engineers CH2M EngineersHeadquartersBoston 1871 1875 and 1890 1928 Providence 1875 1890 New York 1928 1973 Spartanburg from 1973 United States Cincinnati Enquirer Building Contents 1 History 1 1 Lockwood Greene amp Company 1 2 Lockwood Greene amp Company Inc 1 3 Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc 1 4 Later years 2 Legacy 3 Works 4 See also 5 Notes 6 ReferencesHistory editLockwood Greene amp Company edit The firm that would become Lockwood Greene amp Company was established in 1871 in Boston as the mechanical engineering practice of Amos D Lockwood Lockwood a native of Rhode Island was self trained in mechanical engineering and had extensive experience managing textile manufacturing and construction operations Extenuating circumstances obligated him to move his residence to Providence in 1873 to manage his manufacturing interests 1 His office remained in Boston until 1875 when he relocated it to Providence where he established A D Lockwood amp Company to manage all of his business interests His partner was John W Danielson his son in law who had at least fifteen years of similar experience In 1879 Lockwood hired the engineer Stephen Greene a formerly associated with civil engineers Niles B Schubarth and David M Thompson March 1 1882 a new partnership was organized between Lockwood Danielson and Greene known as Lockwood Greene amp Company Lockwood died January 16 1884 in Providence In 1886 Greene moved to Newburyport to be closer to the firm s business interests In 1889 Danielson retired selling his interest to Greene The following January Greene moved the office to Boston where it would remain Lockwood Greene amp Company was incorporated January 1 1901 in Massachusetts Stephen Greene was the first president and Frank E Shedd the first vice president Stephen Greene died unexpectedly November 7 1901 at his home in Newton Center where he had lived since relocating in 1890 b His eldest son Edwin Farnham Greene was elected president in January 1902 c In 1892 George W Stevens former engineer for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester New Hampshire was hired as general superintendent of construction for southern work 3 When Stevens died in 1897 d Joseph Emory Sirrene of Greenville South Carolina was hired as his replacement the following year In 1899 when a southern office was established it was established at Greenville under Sirrene s direction 1 The first twenty years of Edwin F Greene s presidency was a period of major growth of the company Lockwood Greene amp Company had established its first branch office in 1899 at Greenville South Carolina to serve as the firm s southern office This was followed by a third office in Chicago in 1911 4 and in 1912 the southern office was relocated to Atlanta 1 and the Boston office was moved into the new First National Bank Annex at 60 State Street e taking three full floors of the new building 6 In 1913 offices were added in Montreal 7 and New York 8 In 1919 after the close of World War I offices were added at Cleveland Detroit and Paris the latter to manage reconstruction work In 1920 offices were added at Charlotte and Philadelphia In 1923 the southern headquarters was moved from Atlanta to Spartanburg though the Atlanta office was retained 1 Lockwood Greene amp Company Inc edit In 1915 Greene organized a new Lockwood Greene amp Company Inc with four subsidiary companies Lockwood Greene amp Company engineers for design and construction Lockwood Greene amp Company managers for management of manufacturing facilities owned or leased by the firm Lockwood Greene amp Company of Canada Ltd for foreign work and the Greelock Company a holding company for mill securities 1 In 1918 Frank W Reynolds an employee since 1885 and head of the drafting room since the 1890s encouraged the establishment of an architectural department To lead this in early 1919 Walter W Cook was hired f This new department was in charge of exterior design in collaboration with the firm s other engineers 1 Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc edit In the 1920s textile manufacturing revenues declined in New England and elsewhere leaving the firm in a precarious financial condition In early 1926 with the company under the control of a creditor s committee the engineering and management subsidiaries were dissolved their assets merged with those of the parent company Edwin F Green stepped down as president and Albert L Scott g chairman of the former engineering subsidiary succeeded him Several branch offices were closed These changes proved to be insufficient and conditions worsened By 1928 only the engineering department was generating a profit As a result of these realities in 1928 the firm was again reorganized A new holding company Building Engineers Inc was formed by the directors to which the engineering department sold This new organization was then named Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc 11 Within a month Lockwood Greene amp Company gave up management of its remaining mills effective October 1 1928 leaving the old firm solely a holding company for mill securities 12 Additionally at this time the New York office was designated headquarters in place of Boston 1 In the reorganization the architectural department was merged with the engineers and Walter W Cook and his chief assistant George F Blount left to establish their own firm known as Cook amp Blount in New York 1 Their work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics 13 After the death of Scott in 1946 his replacement as president was Chester S Allen 14 h In 1949 Allen was succeeded by Samuel B Lincoln i 15 William J Heiser was elected president in 1955 j 16 J Robert Potter in 1961 k 17 and H Morgan Rogers Jr in 1968 18 In the decades after World War II the company once again grew rapidly 1 Later years edit In 1973 Morgan moved the headquarters to Spartanburg from New York 19 In 1981 Lockwood Greene was acquired by Philipp Holzmann AG a German contractor In 1982 Donald R Luger was elected president to succeed Morgan 20 In January 1999 Holzmann merged Lockwood Greene with J A Jones Construction of Charlotte North Carolina a property of Holzmann since 1979 21 The last president of the company was Fred M Brune named to that office in June of the same year 22 Holzmann declared insolvency not long after and was liquidated in 2002 Facing its own problems Jones declared bankruptcy in 2003 after which Lockwood Greene was sold to CH2M Hill at a cost of 95 5 million 23 In 2007 the firm was renamed CH2M Hill Engineers It became CH2M Engineers in 2015 and was folded into Jacobs Engineering Group in 2017 along with the rest of CH2M Legacy editA number of its works are listed on the U S National Register of Historic Places 24 Works edit nbsp American Legion Building 1937 American Legion Building built 1937 94 W Park Dr Spartanburg South Carolina Lockwood Greene and Company NRHP listed Amity Leather Products Company Factory 723 735 S Main St West Bend Wisconsin Lockwood Greene NRHP listed Arlington Mills Historic District Broadway between Manchester Stafford and Chase Sts Lawrence and Methuen Massachusetts Lockwood Green Company NRHP listed Athenaeum Press built 1895 215 1st St Cambridge Massachusetts Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed nbsp Atlantic City Convention Hall 1929Atlantic City Convention Hall Georgia and Mississippi Aves and the Boardwalk Atlantic City New Jersey Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Charlotte Supply Company Building 500 S Mint St Charlotte North Carolina Lockwood Green amp Co NRHP listed Cincinnati Enquirer Building built 1926 617 Vine St Cincinnati Ohio Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Columbia Mills Building on the Congaree River Columbia South Carolina Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Dallas Mill 701 Dallas Ave Huntsville Alabama Lockwood amp Greene NRHP listed Dan River Mill No 8 Boundary Increase 424 Memorial Dr Danville Virginia Lockwood Greene amp Company NRHP listed Dobson Mills 4001 4041 Ridge Ave 33502 3530 Scott s La Philadelphia Pennsylvania Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed One or more works in Lawton Mills Historic District Roughly bounded by Second St Railroad Ave Norwich Rd and Fifth and Ninth Sts Plainfield Connecticut Lockwood Green NRHP listed Life Savers Building N Main St Port Chester New York Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed One or more works in Loray Mill Historic District Roughly bounded by W Franklin Blvd S Vance and S Trenton Sts and W 6th Ave B Gastonia North Carolina Lockwood Greene and Co NRHP listed One or more works in Merrimack Mill Village Historic District Alpine St Triana Blvd Dunn Dr Cobb Rd Drake Ave amp Grote St Huntsville Alabama Lockwood Greene Co NRHP listed Monaghan Mill 201 Smythe St Greenville South Carolina Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed New England Confectionery Company Factory 250 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge Massachusetts Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed nbsp Pacolet Mill Office 1908Pacolet Mill Office 180 Montgomery Ave Pacolet South Carolina Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Pelzer Mill Buildings 1 4 in Pelzer South Carolina Lockwood Greene amp Co destroyed Sacco Pettee Machine Shops 156 Oak St Newton Massachusetts Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Savona Mill 528 S Turner St Charlotte North Carolina Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed 25 One or more works in Shawmut Historic District Roughly bounded by 25th Blvd 29th Blvd 20th Ave 35th St and 38th Blvd Valley Alabama Lockwood Greene amp Company NRHP listed nbsp Southern Belting Company Building 1915Southern Belting Company Building 236 Forsyth St SW Atlanta Georgia Lockwood Greene and Co NRHP listed One or more works in Stark Mill and Mill Village Historic District Roughly bounded by Lincoln Askew Church Keith and Brazil Sts Whaley Ave and the Hogansville city limits Hogansville Georgia Lockwood Greene amp Co NRHP listed Structural Science Building Clemson University Clemson South Carolina Lockwood Green and Company NRHP listed Joseph Sykes Brothers Company Building 1445 S Mint St Charlotte North Carolina Lockwood Greene and Company NRHP listed Textile Mill Supply Company Building 1300 S Mint St Charlotte North Carolina Lockwood Green amp Co NRHP listed nbsp Montgomery Building 1924Montgomery Building Spartanburg South Carolina NRHP listed Frank Evans High School Spartanburg South Carolina NRHP listed Drayton Mill Spartanburg South Carolina NRHP listedSee also editBoardwalk Hall built 1926 New England Confectionery Company Factory Life Savers Building built 1920 Saco Pettee Machine Shops built 1893 South Carolina State Museum built 1893 Larkin Terminal WarehouseNotes edit Stephen Greene was born September 27 1851 in Hope Rhode Island to Alvin and Maria Arnold Greene His father was a mill operative and superintendent He was raised in mill villages in Rhode Island and Maine and educated at home and in the district schools Greene and his brothers also worked part time in the mills After leaving the Westerly High School he entered Brown University in 1870 to study civil engineering After leaving Brown in 1873 he joined the office of civil engineer and architect Niles B Schubarth as junior partner In 1874 he married Schubarth s daughter In 1875 he moved to the office of mill engineer David M Thompson and was superintendent of construction for the new Elizabeth Mill at Hillsgrove in 1876 After his first son was born he returned to Providence to work for Lockwood 2 Greene s family home built in 1892 still stands at 1038 Centre Street 2 Edwin Farnham Greene was born February 9 1879 in Hillsgrove Rhode Island He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1897 and Brown University in 1901 He died December 7 1956 in New York Stevens died in Cordova Alabama where he was superintending the construction of the Indian Head Mills 3 Designed by R Clipston Sturgis 5 Walter W Cook was formerly an employee of twelve years of Shepley Rutan amp Coolidge and project manager for the United States Housing Corporation 1 He died in 1968 in Dallas 9 Albert Lyon Scott was born June 21 1879 in Cleveland Ohio and died March 2 1946 in Chappaqua New York 10 Chester Salisbury Allen was born November 25 1881 in Massachusetts He joined Lockwood Greene amp Company as an engineer in 1910 He died January 6 1952 in Auburndale Massachusetts Samuel Bicknell Lincoln was born May 14 1882 in Blackstone Massachusetts He joined Lockwood Greene amp Company in 1906 He died February 19 1984 in West Harwich Massachusetts William J Heiser was born x in x He died in 1976 in Garden City New York John Robert Potter was born September 29 1908 and died September 21 1968 References edit a b c d e f g h i j Samuel B Lincoln Lockwood Greene The History of an Engineering Business 1832 1958 Brattleboro Stephen Greene Press 1960 a b Benjamin A Greene Stephen Greene Memories of His Life Evanston Benjamin A Greene 2003 a b Obituary Engineering News 38 no 15 October 7 1897 127 Opens a Chicago Office National Corporation Reporter 43 no 11 October 26 1911 363 BOS 1718 mhc macris net Massachusetts Historical Commission n d Accessed June 7 2021 Real Estate Transactions Boston Daily Globe October 24 1912 17 Trade Notes Steel 53 no 12 September 18 1913 532 Mill Notes American Wool and Cotton Reporter 27 no 8 February 20 1913 265 Obituaries Engineering News Record 181 no 4 September 19 1968 197 Albert L Scott Architectural Record 99 no 5 May 1946 10 Heard on the Street Boston Globe August 4 1928 10 Heard on the Street Boston Globe September 16 1928 a59 Lockwood Greene amp Co Olympedia Retrieved 25 July 2020 Record Reports Architectural Record 99 no 6 June 1946 142 Notices Progressive Architecture 30 no 6 June 1949 16 Engineering News Record 154 no 8 February 4 1955 Notices Progressive Architecture 42 no 7 July 1961 200 Engineering News Record 181 no 19 November 7 1968 Judith T Bainbridge Lockwood Greene The South Carolina Encyclopedia Columbia University of South Carolina Press 2006 also at South Carolina Encyclopedia Tappi 65 no 5 May 1982 213 Carolyn Farr Smith Lockwood Greene J A Jones to merge goupstate com Spartanburg Herald Journal January 19 1999 accessed June 12 2021 Carolyn Farr Smith Consulting firm president has grand designs for the future A new leader at Lockwood Greene goupstate com Spartanburg Herald Journal July 24 1999 accessed June 12 2021 CH2M Hill Wins Prize In Bankruptcy Contest Lockwood Greene is sold by bankrupt J A Jones for 95 5 million as bid trumps two competitors enr com Engineering News Record December 22 2003 accessed June 12 2021 National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service July 9 2010 National Register of Historic Places Listings Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties 12 01 14 through 12 05 14 National Park Service 2014 12 12 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lockwood Greene 26 Co amp oldid 1176570686, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
