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Walter Ross Baumes Willcox (1869-1947), usually known as W. R. B. Willcox, was an American architect and educator of Vermont and Oregon.
Life and career
editWalter R. B. Willcox was born in 1869 in Burlington, Vermont. After some training in an architect's office, he attended the architecture school of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At the end of his education he returned to Burlington, where he established an architect's practice. In 1907 he and an associate, William J. Sayward, moved from Vermont to Seattle.
In 1922 Willcox was selected to lead the recently established architectural program at the University of Oregon in Eugene, at which point he gave up his Seattle practice.
Legacy
editArchitectural works
edit- House for John W. McGeary,[a] Burlington, Vermont (1896)[1]
- House for Charles P. Smith,[b] Burlington, Vermont (1897)[2]
- Wells-Richardson Printing Office,[c] Burlington, Vermont (1897)[3]
- Edmunds High School (former),[d] Burlington, Vermont (1898-1900)[3]
- Offices for Dr. W. H. Englesby and W. R. B. Willcox,[c] Burlington, Vermont (1899)[4]
- House for W. R. B. Willcox, Burlington, Vermont (1900)[3]
- Burlington Savings Bank Building,[c] Burlington, Vermont (1900)[3]
- Welden National Bank Building,[e] St. Albans, Vermont (1900)[5]
- Masonic Temple, Rutland, Vermont (1901)[6]
- Adams School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1902)[3]
- Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, Vermont (1902-03, burned)[6]
- Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont (1902-04, NRHP-listed 1976)[7]
- House for Moses P. Perley, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2020)[6]
- Richmond Congregational Church, Richmond, Vermont (1903, NRHP-listed 2001)[8]
- John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (1904-05)[9]
- Extension of the First Congregational Church, Burlington, Vermont (1904)[3]
- H. O. Wheeler School (former), Burlington, Vermont (1904)[3]
- Memorial Baptist Church, Middlebury, Vermont (1905)[6]
- Wilder Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts (1905)[10]
- Enosburg Falls School, Enosburg Falls, Vermont (1907)[6]
- Arboretum Sewer Trestle, Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington (1910-11, NRHP-listed 1982)[11]
- House for Henry H. Wolfe,[f] Seattle, Washington (1910)[12]
- Leamington Hotel and Apartments,[g] Seattle, Washington (1915-16, NRHP-listed 1994)[13]
- First Congregational Church, Eugene, Oregon (1925, NRHP-listed 1980)[14]
- Cathedral School, Burlington, Vermont (1904, demolished)
- Eaton Apartments, Seattle, Washington (1908-09, demolished)[15]
- Firmin Michel Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington (1909, temporary building)
- House for Levi P. Smith, Burlington, Vermont (1914)
- House for LeRoy D. Lewis, The Highlands, Shoreline, Washington (1914, altered)
Gallery of architectural works
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Offices for Dr. W. H. Englesby and W. R. B. Willcox, Burlington, Vermont, 1899. -
Burlington Savings Bank Building, Burlington, Vermont, 1900. -
Edmunds High School, Burlington, Vermont, 1900. -
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont, 1902-04. -
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John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 1904-05. -
Wilder Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1905. -
Firmin Michel Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion, Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909. -
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Notes
edit- ^ A contributing property to the South Union Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988.
- ^ A contributing property to the South Willard Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988. Now McDonald Hall of Champlain College.
- ^ a b c A contributing property to the Wells-Richardson Complex, NRHP-listed in 1979. Cite error: The named reference "WR" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ A contributing property to the Main Street–College Street Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1988.
- ^ A contributing property to the St. Albans Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1990. Now part of the main office of the Peoples Trust Company.
- ^ A contributing property to the Roanoke Park Historic District, NRHP-listed in 2009.
- ^ Designed in association with Julian F. Everett.
References
edit- ^ South Union Street Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1988)
- ^ South Willard Street Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1988)
- ^ a b c d e f g Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson, Buildings of Vermont (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014)
- ^ Wells-Richardson Complex NRHP Registration Form (1979)
- ^ Boston Home Journal 56, no. 42 (October 20 1900): 8.
- ^ a b c d e Moses P. Perley House NRHP Registration Form (2020)
- ^ Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library NRHP Registration Form (1976)
- ^ Richmond Congregational Church NRHP Registration Form (2001)
- ^ "University of Vermont, Medical Department" in Fireproof Magazine 9, no. 3 (September 1906): 110-114.
- ^ "Horticultural Building at the Massachusetts Agricultural College" in Country Gentleman 70, no. 2731 (June 1 1905): 514.
- ^ Arboretum Sewer Trestle NRHP Registration Form (1982)
- ^ Roanoke Park Historic District NRHP Registration Form (2009)
- ^ Leamington Hotel and Apartments NRHP Registration Form (1996)
- ^ First Congregational Church NRHP Registration Form (1980)
- ^ "Building News" in American Architect 94, no. 1718 (November 25 1908): 22.
- ^ Charles H. Alden, "Walter R. B. Willcox, F. A. I. A," Journal of the American Institute of Architects 8, no. 2 (August 1947): 64-66.