Thom & Wilson

Thom & Wilson, the New York City-based architectural office of Arthur M. Thom and James W. Wilson, was a prolific partnership that turned out numerous brownstones in somewhat generic Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles.

The firm's most promiment commission was the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts (or "New Criminal Courts Building"), a grand, five-story Beaux-Arts structure with two sculpted pediments, situated on a full block between Centre, Franklin Street, Elm (now Lafayette), and White Streets in the Civic Center of Manhattan. Thom & Wilson won the commission in a competition; Napoleon LeBrun came in second. The courts building was connected with a so-called "Bridge of Sighs" to the 1902 City Prison building. Both buildings were demolished around 1939.

Other significant work by the firm includes their Harlem Courthouse, 170 East 121st Street (1891–93, standing) "one of the most impressive buildings in East Harlem" and The Nevada (1891, demolished) on the triangular plot bounded by Broadway, Amsterdam Avenue and 69th and 70th streets. The Nevada was built as an apartment hotel for J. T. Farley and leased out upon completion to a hotel operator. It was demolished for the present nondescript Nevada Towers, completed in 1977.

Thom Wilson

Thom Wilson (died February 8, 2015) was an American punk rock record producer and engineer.

Career

Wilson began his musical career in the mid-1970s, engineering recordings by soft rock artists Burton Cummings and Seals & Crofts. He began working on punk rock albums in the early 1980s while producing the Adolescents' self-titled debut album (also known as The Blue Album). Throughout his career, he would also produce and engineer albums for numerous artists, such as Dead Kennedys, T.S.O.L., Bad Religion, The Joykiller, Social Distortion, The Vandals, The Offspring, Christian Death, Automatic 7, Face to Face and The Bouncing Souls.

Wilson produced The Offspring's first three albums The Offspring (1989), Ignition (1992) and their breakthrough Smash (1994). He also produced the band's 1991 7" EP Baghdad.

Wilson died on February 8, 2015.

Selected discography