American architectural partnership. It was formed in July 1885 by Walter Cope (b Philadelphia, PA, 20 Oct 1860; d Philadelphia, 1 Nov 1902) and John Stewardson (b Philadelphia, 21 March 1858; d Philadelphia, 6 Jan 1896). The firm’s early works are typical of the loose eclecticism of the late 1880s; they worked in several modes, from a refined version of the Romanesque Revival of H. H. Richardson in their Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) building, Richmond, VA (1885; destr.), to the Shingle style of their Edmund Crenshaw House, Germantown, PA (1891), the Netherlandish stepped-gabled fantasy of their Logan Offices, Philadelphia (1888; destr.), and the free broad-eaved Italianate seen in their Harrison Caner House, Philadelphia (1890; destr.), and their Foulke-Long Institute for Orphan Girls, Philadelphia (1890). In each, their invocation of history was blended with the lithe compositional and ornamental goals of their own generation....