His father was Alfred Waterhouse Senior (1798–1873), a cotton broker, and his mother was Mary Waterhouse, née Bevan (1805–1880), of Tottenham, both Quakers. Alfred was their first child of eight children. Waterhouse was born on 19 July 1830 when the family was living at Stone Hill, Liverpool. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Oakfield, a Tudor style villa in Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire. His brothers were accountant Edwin Waterhouse (1841–1917), co-founder of the "Price Waterhouse" partnership, which now forms part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and solicitor Theodore Waterhouse (1838–1891), who founded the law firm Waterhouse & Co, now part of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in the City of London.
Early life and education (1830–1854)
Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
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who designed the ceilings of the natural history museum in london?
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Alfred Waterhouse
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what drawings do those depict?
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The central hall depicts plants considered significant to the history of the museum, o the British Empire and the smaller North Hall depicts plants growing in the British Isles.
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what special antique pieces will you find under that roof?
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are they any room sections in the museum that come that ceiling?
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are they any room sections in the museum that come under that specific ceiling?
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The Central Hall and the North Hall
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could you tell me the date of birth of that designer you had mentioned?
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19 July 1830
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where was he born?
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Alfred Waterhouse was educated at the Quaker Grove House School in Tottenham. He began his architectural studies in 1848 under Richard Lane in Manchester. He was taught to produce architectural drawings with crisp lines and pale tints, very different from the style he would develop later. He was taught theory by copying extracts from books, including Henry William Inwood's "Of the Resources of Design in the Architecture of Greece, Egypt, and other Countries, obtained by the Studies of the Architects of those Countries from Nature" (1834) and William Chamber's "A treatise on civil architecture" (1759), he also traced the designs in Frederick Apthorp Paley's "Manual of Gothic Mouldings" (1845).
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Paul Waterhouse was born on 29 October 1861 in Manchester, England. He was the son and business partner of Alfred Waterhouse, an architect who designed many well-known buildings in England and had been President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Waterhouse was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining his MA in 1887.
Paul Waterhouse | Early life
The scrapbook he used survives in which he sets out Chambers and Paley's opposing views. He also is known to have read during this period John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice (1849) and Augustus Pugin's "Contrasts" (1836) and "The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture" (1841). He joined a sketching club, where he met Frederic Shields and Alfred Darbyshire. In May 1853 he set out to tour Europe with school friend Thomas Hodgkin who stated that Waterhouse ""was entirely under the influence of Ruskin, and communicated his own admiration for Gothic art and a perfect detestation of that beastly Renaissance"", the trip lasted nine months.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Waterhouse was born the third child of seven at Chatham Kent on 22 January 1883, his father being a shipbroker. He was educated at Bancroft's School from 1894–1900 and then at the University of London. At the time of the UK 1901 national census, the family were living in East London, where Gilbert's occupation, aged 18, was given as a ship's Draughtsman. He later qualified as an architect (RIBA) and gave his profession as "architect-surveyor" when he enlisted in the army on 8 September 1914. One of his architectural projects is recorded here
Gilbert Waterhouse | Early life
His father was Alfred Waterhouse Senior (1798–1873), a cotton broker, and his mother was Mary Waterhouse, née Bevan (1805–1880), of Tottenham, both Quakers. Alfred was their first child of eight children. Waterhouse was born on 19 July 1830 when the family was living at Stone Hill, Liverpool. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Oakfield, a Tudor style villa in Aigburth, Liverpool, Lancashire. His brothers were accountant Edwin Waterhouse (1841–1917), co-founder of the "Price Waterhouse" partnership, which now forms part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and solicitor Theodore Waterhouse (1838–1891), who founded the law firm Waterhouse & Co, now part of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in the City of London.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Benjamin Backhouse was born in England in 1829. He was a Bachelor of Arts and was educated as an architect.
Benjamin Backhouse | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of educational buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Sailing to Dieppe, passing through Rouen, then Paris, taking a steamer from Dijon down the Saône to Lyons, then on to Nimes, Arles and Orange. Staying the night at the Grande Chartreuse, passing into Piedmont to Susa and Turin, they walked over the Great St Bernard Pass in a snowstorm into Switzerland, in Basle Waterhouse parted company with Hodgkin and returned to Italy in the company of a Manchester acquaintance George Rooke. Waterhouses's sketchbook from the trip survives and is titled "Scraps from France, Switzerland, and Italy". Every notebook sketch is dated and labelled so his itinerary can be followed.
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
George was born in Somers Town to James Edward Waterhouse and Mary Newman. His father was a solicitor's clerk and an amateur entomologist. He was the brother of Frederick George Waterhouse, who also became a zoologist. George went to school at Koekelberg, near Brussels. He returned to England in 1824 and worked as an apprentice to an architect. Part of the work was in designing the garden of Charles Knight in the Vale of Health, Hampstead and the ornamentation for St. Dunstan's Church.
George Robert Waterhouse | Early life
B. J. Waterhouse, as he was commonly known, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and was the son of James Waterhouse, a grocer, and his wife Sarah, née Turner. Waterhouse reached Sydney from the Gulf of Mexico with his mother and two sisters in March 1885 and was educated in Burwood. He studied architecture at Sydney Technical College while articled to John Spencer and on 6 July 1898 married 19-year-old Lilian Woodcock (d.1955) at Christ Church St Laurence. Joining the professional relieving staff of the Department of Public Works in NSW in March 1900, he worked in the Harbours and Rivers branch and became a relieving architectural draftsman.
B. J. Waterhouse | Early life
Alfred E. Stone was born on July 29, 1834, in East Machias, Maine, to Rev. Thomas Treadwell Stone and Laura Poor Stone. He attended the Washington Academy in East Machias until the family moved to Salem, Massachusetts . While attending high school in Salem, he studied drawing and surveying. He graduated from high school in 1850. In 1852 he began his architectural training in the office of Towle & Foster. A few years later he moved to the office of Shepard S. Woodcock. In 1855 he moved again, to Washburn & Brown. He left the following year and began working for Arthur Gilman.
Alfred E. Stone | Early years and family
Waterhouse was born in the city of Rome to the English painters William and Isabella Waterhouse in 1849, in the same year that the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, were first causing a stir in the London art scene. The exact date of his birth is unknown, though he was baptised on 6 April, and the later scholar of Waterhouse's work, Peter Trippi, believed that he was born between 1 and 23 January. His early life in Italy has been cited as one of the reasons many of his later paintings were set in ancient Rome or based upon scenes taken from Roman mythology.
John William Waterhouse | Early life
In 1854, the Waterhouses returned to England and moved to a newly built house in South Kensington, London, which was near to the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum. Waterhouse, or 'Nino' as he was nicknamed, coming from an artistic family, was encouraged to become involved in drawing, and often sketched artworks that he found in the British Museum and the National Gallery. In 1871 he entered the Royal Academy of Art school, initially to study sculpture, before moving on to painting.
John William Waterhouse | Early life
Backhouse was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in England in May 1851. He was one of seventeen children to Benjamin Backhouse (1829–1904), an architect, and Elizabeth Prentice, née Fuller. His middle name, Paxton, was selected to honour the creator of The Great Exhibition's Crystal Palace – Joseph Paxton – as it was on show during the year of his birth. His parents, who were married on 20 August 1849, were forced by financial constraints to emigrate to Victoria, Australia in 1852 to make their living. The family moved back unsuccessfully to England in 1860 before then relocating first to Brisbane and then to Sydney.
Alfred Paxton Backhouse | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of domestic works by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Elizabeth also organised between 1890 and 1914 evening craft classes in Yattendon. She also arranged amateur theatricals at home. The eldest of the five children the couple had was Paul Waterhouse (1861-1924), after being educated at Eton College and taking a degree in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford he would follow his father's profession joining the practice in 1884, his father made him a partner in 1891. Paul's son Michael Theodore Waterhouse (1888-1968) would also become an architect. In turn Michael's son David Barclay Waterhouse (1921-1998) was the fourth generation to follow the profession retiring in 1989. Alfred's and Elizabeth's other children were: Mary Monica Waterhouse (1863-1949) who married Robert Bridges in 1884; Florence Eliot Waterhouse (1866-1953); Alfred Maurine Waterhouse (1868-c.1881) and Amyas Theodore Waterhouse (1872-1956).
Alfred Waterhouse | Personal life and family
Waterhouse became a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861, and was president from 1888 to 1891. Waterhouse's presidential address included the following: He was awarded a rappel to the grand prix for architecture at the Paris Exposition of 1867. In 1878 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Waterhouse first exhibited one of his designs at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1857, and then from 1868 to 1901 with the exception of 1873 he exhibited mainly designs of his own buildings annually. But in later years he sometimes exhibited topographical views from both his British and European travels.
Alfred Waterhouse | Recognition and professional life
Born in Milford, Michigan, April 16, 1863, Hebbard spent his early years in Michigan and then attended prep school in Rochester, New York. In 1887, Hebbard graduated from Cornell's School of Architecture.
William S. Hebbard | Early life
Haag was born on July 14, 1910 in Philadelphia. He attended Abington High School and earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Fine Arts in 1934, and was affiliated with the university's architectural society in 1933.
George Harold Waldo Haag | Early life and education
Born in New York City, Ball attended the public schools, Anglo-Saxon School, Paris, France, Heathcote School, Harrison, New York, and the Art Students League, New York City. He engaged as a designer in 1916.
Thomas R. Ball | Early life
In Italy he visited Isola Bella, Certosa di Pavia, Milan, Bergamo, Monza and Venice where he remained for two weeks in August, here he sketched the Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica. The tour continued in Padua, Vicenza and Verona, by the end of September he arrived in Florence and stayed a week, and sketched amongst other buildings Giotto's Campanile. Moving onto Siena, Fiesole, Lucca and Pisa. Moving onto southern Italy he visited Naples and stayed around three weeks and toured surrounding towns. In November he arrived in Rome and stayed into the new year. Returning to northern Italy he revisited several cities before passing through Turin on the way to Basle and Strasbourg
Alfred Waterhouse | Early life and education (1830–1854)
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of author William Dean Howells, he earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1891 and completed further architectural studies there in 1894 before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, where he earned a diploma in 1897.
John Mead Howells | Early life and education
With his brothers, Waterhouse was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney (B.A. with first class honours in French, German and Italian 1900–1903; MacCallum Prize for English 1901; M.A. 1919).
Eben Gowrie Waterhouse | Early life
On August 13, 1847, Waterhouse married Maria Augusta, "née" Bode, at Windsor, Berkshire.
Jabez Waterhouse | Early life
Henry Augustus Lukeman was born on January 28, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia, and was raised in New York City. He is "said to have begun lessons at the National Academy and the Cooper Union School at age eleven," though a National Academy of Design source notes that that school's "registration records do not bear… out" this historical supposition. It is also reported that he began sculpting at age 10 at a boys' club miniature workshop, working in clay and wood from ages 10 to 13. At a young age he became a studio assistant of Launt Thompson, an Irish-American sculptor and National Academician, and, like Launt, pursued medically related studies (anatomy)—Lukeman at New York's Bellevue Hospital (for two year prior to 1890).
Henry Augustus Lukeman | Early life and education
Whitehouse was born in London in 1857 and studied civil engineering at King's College London.
George Whitehouse | Early life
Henry Howard was born on February 8, 1818 in Cork, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1836, first living in New York City. Within a year, he joined his brother in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Henry Howard (architect) | Early life
James Waterhouse was born in London on 24 July 1842, the son of William Waterhouse, solicitor and his wife Mary. He was educated at King's College and University College schools, London, before applying for a cadetship in the Bengal Artillery of the army of the East India Company. From 1857-59 he attended the Company's military seminary at Addiscombe, near Croydon, before sailing for India, where he arrived in October 1859.
James Waterhouse | Early life
Bertrand James Waterhouse (8 February 1876 – 2 December 1965) was an English-born Australian architect and artist.
B. J. Waterhouse | Introduction
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of ecclesiastical works by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Frederick Thomas Callcott was born in St Clement Danes, London, the son of Frederick Herbert Callcott. The architect, Charles William Callcott (born 1864) was his younger brother.
Frederick T. Callcott | Early life
Alfred Giles was born May 23, 1853 near Hillingdon, Middlesex, England. His parents were Thomas and Sophie (Brown) Giles. From 1864 to 1868, he attended the Proprietary School at Gravesend, Kent with a goal of entering the ministry in the Church of England. Instead, he chose a career in architecture and apprenticed for two years to Giles and Bivens in London while taking architecture classes at King's College London. The firm hired him after the completion of his apprenticeship. In 1873, Giles moved to New York City.
Alfred Giles (architect) | Early life
He was born in 1877 in Kensington, London, the son of Sidney Rawlins Chesterton and Katherine Eleanor Chesterton. His first cousin was the author G. K. Chesterton.
Frank Chesterton (architect) | Early life
John Prizeman was born on 15 November 1930 in Little Bookham, England. He was raised as a Quaker, educated at Leighton Park School and later graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
John Prizeman | Early life
Albert Edward Kingwell was born in London shortly after New Year's 1863, the only son of the carriage-builder Frederick Kingwell (born Plymouth 1819). and Eliza Kingwell. He was educated at Shoreham Grammar School and Lancing College. He studied at the École de Dessin in Paris, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and at the Royal College of Art before being apprenticed to George Edwards.
Albert Kingwell | Early life and education
Russillo was born March 9, 1902 in Providence, Rhode Island, and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1922–1924 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926.
D. Thomas Russillo | Early life and education
Arthur John Barry was the fourth child of the architect Charles Barry, Jr. and his wife Harriet Gardiner Pitman May. He was born on 21 November 1859 at 5 Woburn Place, Russell Square, Holborn and baptised at St George's, Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He was educated at Uppingham School.
Arthur John Barry | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of commercial buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Frederick Hiester Brooke was born on October 9, 1876, in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, to Edward and Annie (née Clymer) Brooke. He attended St. Paul's School before graduating from Yale University in 1899, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Skull and Bones. He traveled abroad for two years before studying architecture from 1901-1902 at the University of Pennsylvania and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1906. Following his graduation he moved to Washington, D.C. and begin his architectural practice.
Frederick H. Brooke | Early life
Henry Atherton Frost was born in Massachusetts on February 1882 to William A. and Myra Ames (Tilton) Frost. His son, Henry A. Frost Jr., would become an architectural designer in the Boston area. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1905. He went on to the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Henry Atherton Frost | Early life
Regent Alfred John Bidwell was born in 1869. He received his architectural training with Lockyer, Son, & Cox, of London, and he became a member of the Architectural Association, and was placed on the honours list of this institution for design.
Regent Alfred John Bidwell | Early life
Caroline Leonetti was born on April 12, 1918, in San Francisco, California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California and the California School of Design in San Francisco.
Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson | Early life
Henry Closson Hibbs was born on January 26, 1882 in Camden, New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture.
Henry C. Hibbs | Early life
Gillham was born on May 14, 1932 in New York City, New York. His father, Robert Marty Gillham, was an advertising executive, and his mother, Elizabeth Enright, was a writer of children's books and the niece of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962, and completed his postdoc at Yale University from 1961 to 1963.
Nicholas Gillham | Early life and education
Hugh Ferriss was born in 1889 and trained as an architect at Washington University in his native St. Louis, Missouri.
Hugh Ferriss | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a prolific English architect who worked in the second half of the 19th century. His buildings were largely in Victorian Gothic Revival style. Waterhouse's biographer, Colin Cunningham, states that between about 1865 and about 1885 he was "the most widely employed British architect". He worked in many fields, designing commercial, public, educational, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings. Waterhouse was born in Liverpool of Quaker parents. After being articled to Richard Lane in Manchester, he took a ten-month tour of the Continent, then established his own practice in Manchester. Many of his early commissions came from Quakers and other nonconformist patrons.
List of public and civic buildings by Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Joseph Lyman Silsbee was born on November 25, 1848, in Salem, Massachusetts. Silsbee graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1865 and Harvard in 1869. He then became an early student of the first school of architecture in the United States, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Joseph Lyman Silsbee | Early life
Clarence Stanley Fisher was born on August 17, 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied architecture.
Clarence Stanley Fisher | Early life
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known for his design for Manchester Town Hall and the Natural History Museum in London, although he also built a wide variety of other buildings throughout the country. Besides his most famous public buildings he designed other town halls, the Manchester Assize buildings—bombed in World War II, and the adjacent Strangeways Prison. He also designed several hospitals, the most architecturally interesting being the Royal Infirmary Liverpool and University College Hospital London.
Alfred Waterhouse | Introduction
Sundeleaf was born in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood in 1900, and moved at age 6 to a neighborhood just north of Sellwood that was then known as City View Park. After graduating from Washington High School in 1918 he attended the University of Oregon's School of Architecture, in Eugene, graduating in 1923. He trained in the Beaux Arts style of traditional design.
Richard Sundeleaf | Early life and education
Thomas Stedman Whitwell was born in 1784 in Coventry, England. He moved to London in his early twenties, as evidenced in records of his having exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1811 he was employed in the Architect's Office at the London Docks.
Thomas Stedman Whitwell | Early life
McCarter was born 5 July 1864 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. In 1879, he began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts where one of his instructors was Thomas Eakins. However, he described the five years of his studies there as "lost years." In 1887, he went to Paris where he studied with Puvis de Chavannes, Léon Bonnat and Thomas Alexander Harrison of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Henry Bainbridge McCarter | Early life and education
Geis was born in New York City, and lived in Anderson, South Carolina for a time. He studied architecture at Georgia Tech from 1925 to 1927, and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in 1929. From there he attended the University of South Carolina from 1932 to 1933, graduating with a degree in design and painting in the midst of the great depression.
Irving Geis | Early life and education
Edward Emmett Dougherty was born on March 18, 1876 in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1895. He then studied architecture at Cornell University and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Edward Emmett Dougherty | Early life
Jackson was born 1861 in Waterbury, Connecticut and studied in the public schools of the city. After High school he studied for one year at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York. Having decided to make architecture his profession, he worked first with Albert M. West, and afterward with Robert W. Hill (1881–1887). Thereafter, he started his own firm with offices in Waterbury.
Joseph A. Jackson | Early life and education
Born on May 16, 1904 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, Mansell earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926, graduating "summa cum laude". He won the Arthur Spayd Brook Prize Medal and the Faculty Medal for excellence in design in 1926. He was awarded an honorary F.A.D from Wittenberg University in 1956. In 1970, he lived on 143 Powell Road, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 19064.
T. Norman Mansell | Early life and education
Born May 18, 1900 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Woodbridge attended Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1917, Amherst College, graduating in 1921, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, graduating in 1923, and the American Academy in Rome from 1923–1925. He was also the Boyer Research Fellow in Classical Archeology at the University of Michigan.
Frederick James Woodbridge | Early life and education
Ashbee was born in 1863 in Isleworth, the son of businessman and erotic bibliophile Henry Spencer Ashbee. His German-born Jewish mother Elizabeth Jenny Lavi (1842–1919) developed suffragette views, and his well-educated sisters, Frances Mary (1866–1926), Agnes Jenny (1869–1926) and Elsa (1873–1944) were progressive as well. His parents had married in Elizabeth's hometown of Hamburg, Germany on 27 June 1862. Ashbee went to Wellington College and read History at King's College, Cambridge, from 1883 to 1886, and studied under the architect George Frederick Bodley.
Charles Robert Ashbee | Early life
He was born on 3 March 1852 at Oregon Terrace, Peckham Rye, Surrey (now London), the son of Henry Robert Pearsall, and initially educated at the Islington Proprietary School. He was then articled to Sir Arthur Blomfield, and after studying at the Royal Academy (1871–1873), began to practice in his own account.
Robert Pearsall (architect) | Early life
Hinkle was born on June 19, 1880 in Auburn, California. At age 18 he studied at Crocker Art Gallery under painter William Franklin Jackson. By 1900, he moved to San Francisco to study at San Francisco Art Institute (then known as California School of Design) with Arthur Frank Mathews. From 1901 until 1903, he enrolled in the Art Students League of New York and studied under John Twachtman and William Merritt Chase. From 1904 until 1906, he studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In May 1906, he was awarded the Cresson Scholarship, a traveling scholarship to Paris for two years of travel, and he studied at the Académie Julian.
Clarence Hinkle | Early life and education
Campbell was born on 4 July 1857 in Glasgow, Scotland to Janet (nee McKechnie) and Donald Campbell, a ship’s chandler. He was educated first at the Haldane Academy and then the Glasgow School of Art.
John Campbell (architect) | Early life and education
Waterhouse was born to Eben Gowrie Waterhouse and Janet Frew Waterhouse in Sydney in 1916. He grew up at Eryldene in Gordon, a northern suburb of Sydney. The house is now preserved by a trust and open to the public. Douglas was introduced to entomology by his uncle Athol, who would take him on butterfly collection trips. His early schooling was at Brisbane Church of England Grammar School.
Doug Waterhouse | Early life
Waterhouse was the son of Edwin Waterhouse, one of the founding members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1880. Nicholas was educated at Winchester and then New College, University of Oxford.
Nicholas Waterhouse | Early life
Gertrude Huston was born in New York City in 1919 and grew up in New York and Wilton, Connecticut. Huston graduated from Parsons School of Design.
Gertrude Huston | Early life and education
He went on to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1893.
Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn | Early life and education
Born in Athens, New York in 1888. Bergamini studied first at the Cooper Union, between 1908 and 1911 at the Columbia University School of Architecture, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
John Van Wie Bergamini | Early life and education
Alfred Davenport was born on 5 May 1849 in Oxford. He attended Rugby School and went up to the University of Oxford.
Alfred Davenport | Early life
Houghton was born in New York City, on April 10, 1828. He completed preparatory studies and attended Collegiate Institute in New York.
Sherman Otis Houghton | Early life and education
Yeager was born August 16, 1892 in Danville, Illinois, where he graduated from high school. He then attended the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois for two years (1911–1913) and then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architecture for the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1915.
Ralph Oscar Yeager | Early life and education
Waterhouse continued to practice in Manchester for 11 years, until moving his practice to London in 1865. At this stage of his career most of his commissions were either in the north-west or north-east of England. His earliest commissions were mainly for domestic buildings. Among Waterhouse's first commissions in 1854 were for his family, a set of stables at Sneyd Park, for his father, who had moved to Bristol and alterations to his uncle Rogers Waterhouse home at Mossley Bank in Liverpool. In executing the commission for the cemetery buildings at Warrington Road, Lower Ince (1855–56), he began his move towards designing public buildings in his developing Neo-Gothic style, building a lodge for the registrar, and two chapels, one Church of England in Gothic style, and one for Roman Catholic and Non-conformists in Norman style.
Alfred Waterhouse | Manchester practice (1854–1865)
Post was born in New York City on January 13, 1806. He graduated from Columbia College in 1822 and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827, studied in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London (1827–29).
Alfred Charles Post | Early life
Allen Butler Talcott was born on April 8, 1867, in Hartford, Connecticut, into an established and prominent New England family. His artistic inclinations were apparent at an early age, as he created sketches of teachers and fellow students in the margins of his grade school books. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, receiving a diploma in 1890. His formal art education began at the Hartford Art Society, where he studied with painter Dwight William Tryon. He moved to Manhattan while he studied for a short time at the Art Students League of New York. Then he attended Académie Julian in Paris for three years, studying under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.
Allen Butler Talcott | Early life and education
Schooled at Ipswich Grammar School and then the University of Sydney, Backhouse graduated in 1872 with First Class Honours in Classics and First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, followed by a Master's degree in Arts in 1875. After a brief period of teaching he passed the bar on 16 December 1876. He married on 4 February 1879, to Kate Marion.
Alfred Paxton Backhouse | Early life
Born in North Shields, England, the son of Thomas Harbutt (5 August 1803 – 1880) and Elizabeth Whitehouse Jefcoate (27 June 1804-1883) , Harbutt studied at the National Art Training School in London, and eventually became an associate of the Royal College of Art.
William Harbutt | Early life
Waterhouse was born 31 August 1888. His father Paul Waterhouse married Palgrave in 1887. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook his architectural studies at the Architectural Association, where he returned to become a member of the Council from 1921 to 1924, and the Royal Academy Schools. On 16 November 1920, Waterhouse married Rissa Barclay (daughter of Hubert Barclay) in London, and they had one son, David, who also went on to be an architect, and three daughters.
Michael Waterhouse | Personal life
Bridges was born on 4 August 1892 in Yattendon in Berkshire. He was the son of Robert Bridges, later Poet Laureate, and Mary Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the architect Alfred Waterhouse. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges | Early life
Paul Waterhouse, (29 October 1861 – 19 December 1924), was a British architect.
Paul Waterhouse | Introduction
Waterhouse was made an associate of the Royal Academy on 16 January 1878, of which body he became a full member on 4 June 1885. His diploma piece is an 1887 pen and ink drawing with colour washes, a perspective of the main facade of Manchester Town Hall and he was the Royal Academy's treasurer from 17 November 1897 to 5 December 1901. He was also a member of the academies of Vienna (1869), Brussels (1886), Antwerp (1887), Milan (1888) and Berlin(1889), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France (1893). In 1895 Victoria University of Manchester, made Waterhouse an LL.D.
Alfred Waterhouse | Recognition and professional life
Eastman was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Clarence Willis and Ann Hull (Dey) Eastman. After studying at Phillips Academy Andover and Williston Academy, he graduated from Amherst College in 1933 and later from the National Academy of Design in New York City.
P. D. Eastman | Early life
Hammond was born in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts to George and Cornelia Johnson Hammond. He painted before becoming a professional architect and attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He studied with William R. Ware at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded the first American curriculum based on the Beaux-Arts system of architectural training.
George F. Hammond | Early life
In 1950 he earned a master's degree in architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
William J. Conklin | Early life
Herbert Waterhouse, the fourth child of the Reverend Charles James Waterhouse, was born in London in 1864 and educated at Brighton College, East Sussex. He entered the University of Edinburgh as a medical student in 1882. In 1887 he graduated MB CM with distinction and in 1889 was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis. While in Edinburgh, he served as a resident surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and as president of the Royal Medical Society.
Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse | Early life
Alfred Darbyshire was born on 20 June 1839 in Salford, Lancashire, to William Darbyshire, the manager of a dyeworks, and his wife Mary née Bancroft. He was a nephew of George Bradshaw, the compiler of railway guides. His education began at the Quaker school in Manchester and continued from 1852 at the Quaker Ackworth School where his artistic abilities were recognised and encouraged by Henry Sparkes. He completed his education at Liudow Grove Academy, Alderley. On leaving school he was articled to PB Alley of the architects' firm of Lane and Alley in Manchester and enrolled in the Manchester School of Art.
Alfred Darbyshire | Education and career
Waterhouse was born in Rhea County, Tennessee. As a teenager, he ran away from home to fight in the Mexican–American War. After he returned, he and his parents moved to San Augustine, Texas in 1849. There he engaged in the mercantile business until the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Richard Waterhouse (general) | Early life
in 1898, he spent two years in New York City offices, with competitive work, followed by three or four years in Washington, D.C., where for more than a year he was in the employ of Messrs. Hornblower & Marshall, and after that, for some two years, as Chief Designer in the Office of the Supervising Architect Mr. James King Taylor.
Theodore Wells Pietsch I | Education and early career
Alfred was born on 17 June 1920 at Pampanso; a village in the Eastern Region to Hansen Dowuona-Hammond and Madam Beatrice Nettey. He had his early education at Sempe Government Junior Boys' School and Rowe Road Government Senior Boys' School (Kinbu Secondary Technical School), Accra. He had his secondary education at Mfantsipim School, the Accra Academy and O 'Reilly Educational Institute where he obtained his Cambridge School Certificate with exemption from the London Matriculation Examination in 1940.
Alfred Jonas Dowuona-Hammond | Early life and education
Welles was born on January 20, 1830, in Waterloo, New York, the son of Gardner Welles, a Physician, and Paulina Fuller. He graduated from Hobart college in 1850. He received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Racine College in 1874.
Edward R. Welles | Early Life and Education
Reinardt was born in 1902 in New York City. He received his architectural training at Cooper Union (2 years), Mechanics Institute (1 year), Columbia University (night course, 2 years), New York Building School (1 year), and Metropolitan Art School (1. Year). He was apprentice for 5 years in the office of Donn Barber and then became a designer for Wilfred E. Anthony. He then worked for McKenna and Irving as head designer for 2.5 years. He served for 1 year as the director of architecture for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and as an ecclesiastical designer for the Rambusch Decorating Company.
Alfred E. Reinhardt | Early life and Architectural training
Elrod was born in Atlanta, Georgia, grew up on a farm in Anderson, South Carolina, and studied design at South Carolina's Clemson University, before attending the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Arthur Elrod | Early life
House was born on 8 August 1922 in Steyning, Sussex. He was educated at Regent's Park School in London.
David House | Early life
In 1922, he entered the School of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans, graduating in 1926 with a bachelor of science degree in architecture.
A. Hays Town | Early life
Sainsbury was born on 11 February 1856 in Heidelberg in Victoria, Australia to John Sainsbury and Lucy Hood. His brother Henry Sainsbury was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Creswick from 1877 to 1880. After school Sainsbury worked as a junior clerk at the Oriental Bank Corporation.
Alfred Sainsbury | Early life
Alfred Young Nutt was born in 1847 in the small Leicestershire village of Burrough on the Hill, south-east of Melton Mowbray. He was the youngest of fifteen children to Reverend William Young Nutt, who was for thirty-five years curate of Burrough, and Rector of Cold Overton 1852 – 74. Following an education at Oakham, Nutt took up an apprenticeship at an architectural practice in Leicester in 1861 where he remained for six years, during which time he was befriended by an artist called Harry Ward who later became a resident of Windsor. This connection led to Alfred taking up a position at the Office of Works of Windsor Castle in 1867 as a draughtsman.
Alfred Young Nutt | Early life
Helen Thomas was born 5 March 1913 in Chaldon, England. Her father was Frederick William Thomas an Oxford Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages. She was initially educated at home with a tutor, but later attended Roedean School, a public boarding school for girls. After Roedean, Thomas went to Girton College, Cambridge to read classics. She graduated with a first class honours degree in classics with the additional distinction of a starred first in archaeology. She married the English art historian Ellis Waterhouse in 1949.
Helen Waterhouse | Early life and education
Waterhouse's move to London, was at a fortuitous time, London was undergoing major expansion and rebuilding in the 1860s. Both his brothers Edwin and Theodore were already living there. Before his move he had already been commissioned to design the Quaker run Alexander and Cunliffe's Bank (1864–67) in Lombard Street, City of London, (demolished), Italianate with Gothic features, four-storied of stone. The competition to design the Royal Courts of Justice was by invitation only. It was decided in late 1865 to limit it to six competitors, of which Waterhouse was one. The instructions were drafted in 1866. Due to objections the number of invited architects was increased to twelve.
Alfred Waterhouse | London practice (1865–1902)
Everett was born on October 5, 1869 in Leeds, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at Syracuse University. Everett moved to Montana in 1902, where he designed the John R. Toole House in Missoula, now a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. He moved to Seattle in 1904 where he designed several commercial buildings, churches and homes for prominent citizens.
Julian F. Everett | Early life and career
He was born in New York City to an American mother from Boston and a French-Italian father. He was raised in Florence, Italy and in 1917 he was sent as a boarder to Bedford Modern School in England leaving in 1924 to study architecture in London. After also graduating from the Royal School of Architecture in Rome, Girard refined his skills in both Florence and New York.
Alexander Girard | Early life
Ron Herron was born in London on 12 August 1930, to a leather-working family. He studied draughtsmanship at the Brixton School of Building and architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
Ron Herron | Early life and education
Alfred Barton Brady was born on 1 February 1856 in Manchester, England. He was educated in private schools.
Alfred Barton Brady | Early life
Barlow was born in Troy, New York. He attended Drury High School and graduated from Cornell University where he studied architecture in 1891.
Edwin Thayer Barlow | Early life and education