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Walker & Gillette ventured into commercial architecture in 1921 with great success. Their New York Trust
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completed in the city and in the entire country. In sharp contrast the firm's most theatrical modernist building came the same year. That was the
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New York area through the late 1920s. Their 1927 National City Bank branch on Canal Street is likely the most significant. Then came a number of major skyscrapers, notably the
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through Walker's father-in-law, the firm designed numerous residences there, such as the 1908 Mary E. Scofield house, "Sho-Chiku-Bai", with landscape design by
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