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American architect
Born January 8, 1845 Died July 12, 1905 Nationality American Occupation Architect Practice Hartshorn & Wilcox, C. F. Wilcox, Wilcox & Congdon Buildings
Congdon Street Baptist Church , Union Baptist Church,
Burrows Block , Conant Memorial Church
Congdon Street Church , Providence, 1874.
Burrows Block , Providence, 1880.
Conant Memorial Church,
Dudley , 1890.
Aldrich Free Public Library ,
Moosup , 1894.
Charles F. Wilcox (1845–1905) was an
American
architect practicing in
Providence, Rhode Island .
Life
Wilcox was born in 1845 in
Georgia , to a family that relocated to Providence in his infancy.
[2] He trained with local architect
Charles P. Hartshorn , becoming his partner in 1873. Their firm, Hartshorn & Wilcox, lasted until the end of 1879, briefly before Hartshorn's death in 1880.
[3] Wilcox continued practicing alone until 1895, when he made draftsman Gideon Gardner Congdon partner in Wilcox & Congdon. This firm was dissolved in 1899 and Wilcox again continued alone.
[4] He died in Providence in 1905.
Architectural works
Hartshorn & Wilcox, 1873-1879
1874 -
Congdon Street Baptist Church ,
15 Congdon St , Providence, Rhode Island
[5]
1874 - Wayland Building,
128 N Main St , Providence, Rhode Island
[5]
1875 - Fourth Baptist Church (Remodeling), Howell St, Providence, Rhode Island
[7]
1876 - Union Baptist Church,
10 East St , Providence, Rhode Island
[5]
Commissioned by the Third Baptist Church
1877 - Charles Ackerman Duplex,
61-63 Chapin Ave , Providence, Rhode Island
[8]
C. F. Wilcox, 1880-1895
1880 -
Burrows Block ,
741 Westminster St , Providence, Rhode Island
[9]
1883 - First Baptist Church,
30 Peirce St ,
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
[10]
1883 - South Baptist Church, 185-187 Ocean St, Providence, Rhode Island
[11]
1884 - Charles Matteson House,
112 Prospect St , Providence, Rhode Island
[12]
1886 - Cyrus E. Lapham House, 64 Harrison St,
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
[13]
1890 - Conant Memorial Church, 135 Center Rd,
Dudley, Massachusetts
[14]
1893 - Dudley Hill School, Center Rd, Dudley, Massachusetts
[15]
1895 -
Aldrich Free Public Library , 299 Main St,
Moosup, Connecticut
Wilcox & Congdon, 1895-1899
C. F. Wilcox, 1899-1905
References
^ Building Age Aug. 1905: 202.
^ Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Rhode Island . 1892.
^ New England Families: Genealogical and Memorial . Ed.
William Richard Cutter . Vol. 3. 1914.
^ "Gideon Gardner Congdon". Congdon Chronicle Jan. 1927: 148.
^
a
b
c Woodward, Wm. McKenzie. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources . 1986.
^ The Providence Directory and Rhode Island Business Directory . 1889.
^
Cady, John Hutchins . The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950 . 1957.
^ PPS Records for 61-63 Chapin Avenue . 2007.
^ American Architect and Building News 10 April 1880: 160.
^ American Architect and Building News 7 July 1883: 3.
^ Sanitary Engineer 4 Oct. 1883: 426.
^ Engineering Record 5 Feb. 1885: 217.
^ American Architect and Building News 1886: 243.
^ A Souvineer of the Conant Memorial Church . 1893.
^ "Currier Center".
http://hcap.artstor.org/ [
permanent dead link ] . Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Web.
^ Olney Street-Alumni Avenue Historic District NRHP Nomination . 1989.
^ Minutes of the Rhode Island Baptist Anniversaries . 1902.
^
Saunderstown Historic District NRHP Nomination . 1985.