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 .
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 [ edit ] Hartshorn & Wilcox, 1873-1879[ edit ] 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[ edit ] 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[ edit ] C. F. Wilcox, 1899-1905[ edit ]
^ 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.