(b Fort Wayne, IN, 3 March 1870; d New York, 18 Feb 1943). American architect. He graduated from Yale University (BA), New Haven, CT, in 1891 and entered the office of McKim, Mead & White in 1892. There he met Evarts Tracy (1868–1929) with whom he formed a partnership in 1900. Their practice encompassed Greco-Roman and Renaissance classicism and included the Connecticut Savings Banks (1906), New Haven, the Department of Commerce Building (1912) in Washington, DC, and the Missouri State Capitol (1912–16), Jefferson City. After Tracy retired in 1915, Swartwout maintained a small office, doing limited work including the Town Hall (1919), Milford, CT, the US Post Office and Court House (1923), Denver, CO, and the neo-classical Elks Memorial Building (1922–6), Chicago, IL. Swartwout considered the latter, with its domed rotunda, his finest work; it incorporated decoration by many artists, including Edwin Howland Blashfield and Adolph Alexander Weinman. Later work by Swartwout included the Municipal Auditorium (1928) in Macon, GA, and the Bailey Memorial (1929) in the Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York. His addition of 1927 to the Yale University Art Gallery by Peter Bonnett Wight is particularly interesting. Swartwout’s grandly arcaded Tuscan Romanesque block is linked to Wight’s Veronese Gothic building by a bridge that arches over High Street and contains faculty offices.