Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell (1872–1888) was an architecture firm in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Its principals were Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (1829–1888), Walter Thacher Winslow (1843–1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854–1930). Most of the firm's work was local to Boston and New England, with a few commissions as far afield as Seattle and Kansas City.
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The firm is variously credited. Nathaniel Bradlee had run a thriving solo practice in Boston since 1854. In 1872 Bradlee promoted Winslow to partner, creating Bradlee & Winslow for 12 years. (Bradlee appears to retain solo credit for some projects afterward, for example Danvers State Hospital.) In 1884 Wetherell was also promoted, creating Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.[2][3]
Bradlee died in 1888. Winslow & Wetherell then formed their partnership as Bradlee's successor firm.[4] Architect Henry Forbes Bigelow (1867-1929) joined the organization around 1898, after which the partnership was credited as Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, then Winslow & Bigelow, and in its last incarnation Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth. Winslow died in 1909 and control of the partnership went to Bigelow.
A number of works by the firm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]
Work
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Works include (with attribution):
- Wigglesworth Building, 89-83 Franklin St., Boston, 1873 (Bradlee & Winslow)
- St. Andrew's By-The-Sea, Church Rd., 0.2 mi. SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A Rye, NH, 1876 (credited to Winslow and Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]
- Bijou Theatre, Boston, 1882 (Bradlee & Winslow)
- Chickering Hall, Tremont St., Boston, 1883 (Bradlee & Winslow)[6]
- Old New England Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1886 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]
- Union Station, Portland, Maine, 1888 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)
- Maine Central Railroad General Office Building, 222-224 Saint John Street, Portland, Maine, 1889 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed, built out in stages through 1916
- The Oaks, 437 E. Beverly St. Staunton, Virginia, 1890 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]
- Building at 30–34 Station Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]
- Boston Block, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, 1896 (razed 1921)
- Banigan Building, Providence, Rhode Island, Providence's first skyscraper, 1896 (Winslow & Wetherell)[7]
- Steinert Hall, Boston, 1896 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Boston Hotel Buckminster, Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Hotel Touraine, Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Needham Town Hall Historic District, Needham, Massachusetts, 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Compton Building, Boston, 1903 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building, Boston, 1906 (Winslow & Bigelow)
- Antiquitarian Hall, for the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1910 (Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth)
- Children's Hospital Boston, Huntington Ave. (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)[8]
- Baker Chocolate mill complex, (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell) Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, Massachusetts[9]
- One or more works in Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, both sides of Neponset River Boston, MA (Bradlee, Winslow,& Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]
- One or more works in boundary increase to Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, roughly: Adams, River, Medway Sts., Millers Lane, Eliot and Adams Sts. Boston, MA (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell; Winslow & Wetherell; et al.), NRHP-listed[5]
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Wigglesworth Building (1873), Boston -
Old New England Building (1886), Kansas City, Missouri -
Union Station (1888), Portland, Maine -
Hotel Touraine (1897), Boston -
Antiquitarian Hall (1910), Worcester, Massachusetts
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References
edit- ^ Boston Almanac. 1888
- ^ Amy McFeeters and Sally Zimmerman: Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House, 583 Mount Auburn Street: Landmark Designation Report Archived October 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Historical Commission. December 8, 1992, updated November 20, 2002.
- ^ "Obituaries: Walter Thacher Winslow [1843-1909]." American Institute of Architects, Quarterly Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4[permanent dead link] (January 1909), p. 286.
- ^ "Proctor Building Study Report - 1983" (PDF). Boston.gov. Boston Landmarks Commission. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "The new Chickering: a pretty hall in which exercises were rendered yesterday." Boston Daily Globe, November 8, 1883.
- ^ "Banigan Building". Guide to Providence Architecture. Providence Preservation Society. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Edwin Munroe Bacon and George Edward Ellis, eds. Bacon's Dictionary of Boston (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 93.
- ^ Anthony M. Sammarco. The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.