Charles Wheelock (architect)
Charles Wheelock (December 12, 1833 – September 24, 1910) was an architect in Birmingham, Alabama. His son Hary Burt Wheelock partnered with him to form Wheelock & Wheelock.[1]
Biography
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He was born in New Hampshire and schooled in Oneida County, New York where his family moved when he was ten. He became a carpenter and then a contractor. He served in the 117th New York Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War rising to the rank of captain. After the war he moved around[2] and worked in various cities before settling in Birmingham in 1881.[2]
He married Eliza Manchester of Boonville, New York in 1853,[2] and after they separated, he then married Anna Cassity in 1876.[3] He remarried his first wife, Eliza, in February 1909.[4]
He was a member of the masonic fraternity and Knights Templar.[5]
His firm assisted H. Wolters of Louisville on the second Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham built in 1889.[6][7] It was succeeded in 1929 by an art deco courthouse building, Jefferson County Courthouse (Birmingham, Alabama). S. Scott Joy (Samuel Scott Joy) was a partner at the firm (Wheelock, Joy and Wheelock).
Businessman George F. Wheelock was one of his sons.[2]
Oliver Marble and M. W. Steele were the other architects in Birmingham in 1884.[8] Marble went on to work in Chicago and Sandusky.
Work
[edit]- Second Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama
- Cathedral Church of the Advent (Wheelock, Joy, and Wheelock) (1893)[9]
- Young & Vann Building (1893)
- Hillman Hospital (1903)[10][11]
- Steiner Bank Building, NRHP listed
- Business block on First Avenue
- W. M. Burgin's music and art building on Fifth Avenue
- Bibb County Banking and Trust in Centreville, Alabama[12]
Later works of the firm
[edit]- Forbes Piano Company at 1914 Fourth (1913), Harry B. Wheelock[13]
- Hood-McPherson Furniture Building, now the Auburn University Provost Office (1914) (Harry Wheelock)[14]
- Molton Apartments (1913)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Harry B. Wheelock death". The Anniston Star. February 5, 1940. p. 3 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Owen, Thomas McAdory (June 5, 1921). "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography". S. J. Clarke publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ "Mrs. Wheelock Died Yesterday". The Birmingham Age Herald. September 21, 1899. p. 2.
- ^ "Remarried After Thirty Five Years". Daily Mountain Eagle. February 17, 1909. p. 6.
- ^ "Charled Wheeler, Pioneer, Is Dead". The Birmingham News. September 26, 1910.
- ^ "Jefferson County Courthouse Site Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
- ^ Hughes, Delos (December 1, 2016). Historic Alabama Courthouses: A Century of Their Images and Stories. NewSouth Books. ISBN 978-1-58838-334-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ "City Directory of Birmingham, and Gazetteer of Surrounding Section for ..." Interstate Directory Company. June 5, 1884 – via Google Books.
- ^ Commission, Jefferson County Historical; Libraries, Birmingham Public; History, Bessemer Hall of (September 5, 2010). Birmingham and Jefferson County Alabama. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-8730-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Hillman Hospital". Encyclopedia of Alabama.
- ^ Fazio, Michael W. (June 5, 2010). Landscape of Transformations: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1-57233-687-2 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Southern Architect". Southern Architect Publishing Company. June 5, 1897 – via Google Books.
- ^ White, Marjorie Longenecker; Society, Birmingham Historical (June 5, 1977). Downtown Birmingham: Architectural and Historical Walking Tour Guide. Birmingham Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-943994-02-4 – via Google Books.
- ^ "About the Building". Auburn in Birmingham.