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229:, Thompson had worked on the master plan for the New Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Under the Rockrise and Thompson partnership, the firm designed an office building for Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company in Shanghai, as well as projects for Yamanaka and Company and Dr. Takamine in Osaka and Tokyo. All of this work employed the Beaux Arts style.
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On April 4, 1915, Tsumanuma met Agnes
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a.k.a. Thomas S. Rockrise, A.I.A., (1878 – February 5, 1936) was one of the earliest
Japanese immigrants to receive an architecture degree at an American university and was among the first Japanese architects to be licensed in the State of New York in 1916. His practice was based in New York
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By the end of the First World War, Tsumanuma and Shiota had accumulated an impressive portfolio of published projects, all of which incorporated
Japanese design elements. None drew on Tsumanuma's Beaux Arts training. With the fashion for the Japonesque fading on the east coast, Tsumanuma made the
353:"Index to Aliens, Not Including Filipinos, East Indians, and Chinese, Arriving by Vessel or at the Land Border at Seattle, Washington; NAI Number: 2945984; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3691; Roll Number: 15"
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In August 1922, Tsumanuma was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Tsumanuma was advised to take the rest cure at
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180:(Japanese style country house) for Robert LeMoyne Barrett, in Concord, New Hampshire. An early independent project of Tsumanuma's, obtained through his connections in New York's Nikkei community, was the Keizo Uenaka residence designed in the American Colonial style in Tokyo, Japan.
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and a large masonry apartment building, along with prospects for office buildings from patrons in New York City's Nikkei community. However, he returned from this trip with the largest and most complex project of his career, a 600-bed municipal hospital in
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first of two trips back to Japan in 1920 in search of new commissions abroad. During this trip he visited his family for the first time since leaving
Yamagata in 1899. Tsumanuma had two Beaux Arts projects in hand when he arrived in Japan; a museum in
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Dubrow, Gail; Rockrise, Christina; Gregory, Alyssa; Pawlicki, Sarah (2021). "Practicing
Architecture under the Bamboo Ceiling: The Life and Work of Iwahiko Tsumanuma (Thomas S. Rockrise), 1878-1936".
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The depth and breadth of
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Elias Burton Holmes Residence, NYC, NY (Rockrise & Shiota) ~1919
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