of MA from Yale in 1870 and PhD from the College of the City of New York in 1893. A disciple of John Ruskin, Sturgis intensely disliked the trend toward neoclassic eclecticism at the end of the 19th century and hailed Louis H. Sullivan's work as the most significant that was being done in America. A leading authority on the history of architecture and art, Sturgis was editor for decorative art and medieval archaeology of the Century Dictionary, editor of architecture and fine art for Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia (1893–95); and compiler (for the American Library Association) of the Annotated Bibliography of Fine Art (1897). In January 1897 he became editor of The Field of Art, a department of Scribner's Magazine, which he continued until his death. He is best known as a writer on art and architecture, making many contributions to dictionaries, encyclopedias and periodicals. He was editor-in-chief of A Dictionary of Architecture and Building (3 vols, 1901–1902). Sturgis edited and revised the English version of Wilhelm Luebke's Outlines of the History of Art (2 vols, 1904), and was editor on fine arts for the Encyclopedia Americana (1904–05). He wrote: European Architecture: A Historical Study (1896). The Etchings of Piranesi (1900). How to Judge Architecture (1903). The Appreciation of Sculpture (1904). The Appreciation of Pictures (1905). A Study of the Artist's Way of Working in the Various Handicrafts and Arts of Design (2 vols, 1905). The Interdependence of the Arts of Design (1905). Ruskin on Architecture (1906). History of Architecture (4 vols., 1906–1915; Vols. III and IV were completed by A.L. Frothingham, Jr.). Volume I. Antiquity (1906). Volume II. Romanesque and Oriental (1909). Volume III. Gothic in Italy, France, and Northern Europe (1915) Volume IV. Gothic in Great Britain — Renaissance — Modern Architecture (1915) During his last years he was nearly blind. He died on February 11, 1909, at his long-time home, 307 East 17th Street, in New York City. Sarah Sturgis died there on May 1, 1910. Selected buildings Joseph H. Scranton house (1867–71), Scranton, Pennsylvania. Farnham Hall (1868–70), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dean Sage house (1869), 839 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Durfee Hall (1870–71), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. house (1872–73, demolished), 6 West 57th Street, New York City. Interiors were designed by Frank Furness and executed by Daniel Pabst. Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank (1874–75), State & James Streets, Albany, New