Gervase Wheeler
Gervase Wheeler | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1815 |
| Died | January 1st, 1889 |
| Occupation | Architect |
Gervase Wheeler (1815–1889) was a British architect, writer, and illustrator who designed homes in the United States.
Wheeler is best known for publishing influential architectural pattern booksRural Homes (1851) and Homes for the People in Suburb and Country (1855).[1][2][3][4] These books include house plans as illustrations, while the prose focuses on architectural best practices and Wheeler's personal opinions about American culture and aesthetics. He promoted Italianate style[5] as well as Carpenter Gothic.[6]
Wheeler moved to the U.S. in 1846 or 1847 and stayed until the 1860s, after which he returned to London.[1]
Personal life
Wheeler's father, who was also named Gervase, worked as a manufacturer of gold, silver and gilded jewelry from 1832 to 1844. London directories indicate he worked at 28 Bartlett's Buildings in Holborn, then just outside London.[1]
In 1855, he stated that "the desire to build, to have a home of one's own is implanted in the breast of every American, and I fancy statistics would show that the number of those who own homesteads in this country far exceeds England."[7]
Selected architectural works
- Henry Boody House, Brunswick, Maine (1848–49)[8]
- Olmstead House, East Hartford, Connecticut (1849, the design of which inspired The Willows, Morristown, New Jersey)[9][6][10]
- Edward Bartlett House, Rockwood Hall, Mount Pleasant, New York (1849)[11]
- Joshua Newton Perkins House, Norwich, Connecticut (1850–51)[12]
- Insurance Company of North America Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1850) [13]
- โบสถ์เพรสไบทีเรียนแห่งแรกโอเวโก นิวยอร์ก (1854) [ 14 ]
- บ้านแพทริค แบร์รี เมืองโรเชสเตอร์ รัฐนิวยอร์ก (พ.ศ. 2499–2491) [ 15 ]
- โบสถ์ที่วิทยาลัยวิลเลียมส์ วิลเลียมส์ทาวน์ แมสซาชูเซตส์ (1856–59) [ 16 ]
- บ้านโอลมสเตด
- บ้านแพทริค แบร์รี่
บรรณานุกรม
- บ้านสำหรับประชาชน ทั้งในเขตชานเมืองและชนบทปี 1855
- การเลือกที่อยู่อาศัยพ.ศ. 2414
Renée Tribert และ James F. O'Gorman, Gervase Wheeler: สถาปนิกชาวอังกฤษในอเมริกา, 1847–1860 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012)