Irving & Casson

Irving & Casson – AH Davenport Co .: French Empire style desk . On the underside with a company badge with the following inscription: Irving & Casson-AH Davenport Co. Boston (Copley Sq.) NEW YORK (Fifth Avenue) and a stamp with the number 2530.

Irving & Casson was an interior design and furniture construction company founded in Boston in 1875 .

Irving & Casson company badge.

The company specialized in woodwork such as paneling and fireplace surrounds . Irving & Casson also made furniture in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th century styles. Between 1914 and 1916 the company merged with AH Davenport, a company that was also based in Boston. Both companies had factories in East Cambridge, a district of Cambridge , Massachusetts . After the merger, Irving & Casson-AH Davenport Co., as the company was now called, carried out numerous orders for the furnishing of neo-Gothic churches, including the chapel of Duke University and that of the University of Pittsburgh . The last major project the company carried out was in the 1950s when it was responsible for part of the interior design of the UN headquarters in New York City .

Irving & Casson – AH Davenport Co. ceased operations in 1974.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Winterthur Library, Col. 752, 8G 1-5