Edward Lippincott Tilton (October 19, 1861 – January 5, 1933) was an American architect and archaeologist, with a practice in New York City, where he was born.The monograph is Lisa B. Mausolf with Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, Edward Lippincott Tilton A Monograph on His Architectural Practice, 2007 (on-line text). He specialized in the design of libraries, completing about one hundred in the U.S. and Canada, including many Carnegie libraries and structures for educational institutions.Lisa B. Mausolf and Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, "Edward Lippincott Tilton: A Monograph on His Architectural Practice", 2007 (pdf file)

Early life Tilton was the son of Benjamin W. Tilton and Mary ( Baker) Tilton.

At the age of 18, he started working in the banking house of Corlies Macy & Co.

Career In about 1881, Tilton abandoned a budding career in banking to work as a draftsman in the office of McKim, Mead & White, a traditional apprenticeship for which he prepared with a private tutor in architecture and which prepared him for a course of further study at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1887–1890). Early commissions came through family connections; they included the casino (1891–92) in Belle Haven, an affluent shoreline community of Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Hotel Colorado in the resort of Glenwood Springs, Colorado (1891–93).

He and the partner that he met in Paris, William A. Boring, won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Four major buildings were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. He served as president of the American Institute of Architects.

He published his thoughts on library planning and construction, in Essentials in Library Planning with A.E. Bostwick and S.H Ranck (1928), and "Library Planning" posthumously published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1936).

Works Tilton worked in the partnership Boring & Tilton (1881–1904), as a solo architect, in the partnership Tilton & Githens (1916–1932), then again briefly in solo practice as consulting architect until his death.

Boring & Tilton (1881–1904)

U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor: Main Building (1897–1900) Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900–01) Main Powerhouse (1900–01) Main Hospital Building (1900–01) Bayonne Public Library, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1904

Tilton (1904–1916)

Ludington Public Library, Ludington, Michigan, 1906 Olean Public Library, Olean, New York, 1907 Concordia College campus, Bronxville, New York, 1908 Carnegie Science Hall (renamed to Stuart Hall in 1977) at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1910, Stuart Hall. Elizabeth Public Library, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1912 Springfield City Library, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1912SPR.176, Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System (MACRIS). Sioux City Free Public Library, Sioux City, Iowa, 1913 Carpenter Memorial Library, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1914 (with architect Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb) Franklin Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1914 Belmar Public Library, Belmar, New Jersey, 1914 Bond Hall, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1915 Trenton Free Public Library (John Lambert Cadwalader addition), Trenton, New Jersey, 1915

Tilton & Githens (1916–1932)

Peabody Library, George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University), Nashville, Tennessee, 1919 Chester C. Corbin Public Library, Webster, Massachusetts, 1920 Riley Hall of Art and Design, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 1920 St. Luke's Lutheran Church, NYC, 1922 Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, Delaware, 1923 Knight Memorial Library, Providence, Rhode Island, 1924 Mount Pleasant Library, Washington DC, 1925 McGregor Public Library, Highland Park, MI, 1926 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1929 Central Library, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, 1931-1933

Personal life In 1901, he married Mary Eastman Bigelow. Together, they were the parents of a son:

Charles Edward Tilton (1905–2000), an architect who was a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Architecture.

Tilton died of pneumonia at his home, 89 Greenacres Avenue in Scarsdale, New York on January 5, 1933.

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