Architect
Centurion, 1900–1933
Born 19 October 1861 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 5 January 1933 in Scarsdale, New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Russell Sturgis and William Robert Ware
Elected 1 December 1900 at age thirty-nine
Seconder of:
Century Memorial
As an architect, Edward Lippincott Tilton was one of the numerous distinguished graduates from the training-school of McKim, Meade [sic: Mead] & White. Striking out in partnership on his own account, his firm won the competition for the Ellis Island Immigration Station; individually, the planning of public libraries was his best-known achievement. Tilton was a high authority on the architecture of ancient Greece. He had acquired his knowledge of it at first hand, sharing in the excavations at Argos nearly forty years ago.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook
