Mellor, Meigs & Howe

Mellor, Meigs & Howe (1916–28) was a Philadelphia architectural firm best remembered for its Neo-Norman residential designs.

Mellor & Meigs, its predecessor and successor firm, was founded in 1906 by Walter Mellor and Arthur Ingersoll Meigs, who had worked together in the office of Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr. The young architects designed clubs and suburban residences in a variety of historicist styles.

The pair converted a former stable on Juniper Street into their architectural office, with drafting rooms on two floors and a high-ceilinged private office for entertaining clients. For the firm's early commissions they relied on family and personal connections. Meigs was a graduate of Princeton University, and designed the Colonial Revival Princeton Charter Club (1912–14), one of the university's eating clubs. Mellor had joined the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity ("Fiji") while attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, and designed a Collegiate Gothic "Fiji" house at his alma mater (1913–14) and "Fiji" houses at Penn State University (1914–15) and the University of Washington (1929). Meigs designed an elaborate Tudor Revival fantasy for "Glen Brook" (1914–17), the Caspar W. Morris residence in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Mellor secured the commission for and designed the Renaissance Revival Bird House (1914–15) at the Philadelphia Zoo.Samuel Yellin fashioned custom metalwork for many of the firm's projects, and Mellor & Meigs designed him a Spanish Revival workshop (1915) in West Philadelphia.