Farm (1892), the lost mansion designed for Frederick R. and Dora Sedgwick Hazard in nearby Solvay, New York, is an example of the fashionable residential work that Silsbee was best known for. Silsbee also designed various dwellings around New York State in Ballston Spa, Albany, and Peekskill (in the latter place for Henry Ward Beecher) Silsbee designed the lavish interiors of Potter Palmer's "castle" in Chicago. Several of his residential designs survive in Riverside and Evanston Illinois. His most prominent surviving work in Chicago is the Lincoln Park Conservatory. Considerably smaller in scale but filled with such elegant details as mosaic floors and a graceful oak roof with "hammer-beams trusses and curved brackets" is his Horatio N. May Chapel on the grounds of Rosehill Cemetery. Silsbee designed the movable walkway at the World's Columbian Exposition pier in 1893, and submitted plans to provide this improvement for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1894, although these plans were never executed. In his 1941 autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright wrote: Silsbee practiced architecture until his death in 1913. Works Works include: Gallery References Notes Further reading Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency (1975). Onondaga Landmarks. Harley McKee, Patricia Earle, Paul Malo (1964). Architecture Worth Saving in Onondaga County. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Angela Hess. External links Joseph Lyman Silsbee at buffalo.edu Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Syracuse Syracuse Savings Bank photographs White Memorial Building photographs Amos Block photographs Oakwood Memorial Chapel photographs Hazard Mansion photographs 1848 births 1913 deaths Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Harvard University alumni MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni 19th-century American architects 20th-century American architects Architects from Massachusetts Architects from Syracuse, New York Architects from Buffalo, New York Architects from Chicago Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York) People from Salem, Massachusetts