Evarts Tracy (1868–1922) was the son of first cousins Jeremiah Evarts Tracy and Martha Sherman Greene. His paternal grandmother Martha Sherman Evarts and maternal grandmother Mary Evarts were the sisters of
William M. Evarts. Evarts Tracey graduated from
Yale in 1890.
Egerton Swartwout (1870–1943) was the first son of Satterlee Swartwout and Charlotte Elizabeth Edgerton (daughter of Ohio Representative
Alfred Peck Edgerton). Swartwout graduated from Yale University in 1891. Both Swartwout and Tracy had trained and worked as draftsmen with the renowned firm,
McKim, Mead and White. From 1904-1909, Tracy and Swartwout were joined by architect
James Riely Gordon, forming the firm
Gordon, Tracy & Swartwout. In 1909-1912 the firm was joined by
Electus Darwin Litchfield, a graduate of the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the
Stevens Institute of Technology. The firm was at this time named Tracy, Swartwout & Litchfield. Evarts Tracy died January 31, 1922, in France, of chronic myocarditis.
Egerton Swartwout continued working on his own after Evarts Tracy's death. ==Buildings==