Holman King Wheeler was born October 26, 1859, in Berlin, Massachusetts.[2] He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then located in Boston. He graduated in 1882.[3] He had worked in the offices of Lynn architects beginning in 1878, and began working on his own by 1883.[1][4] In 1884 he formed the firm of Wheeler & Northend in Lynn, with Salem architect W. Wheelwright Northend. Northend resumed his independent practice around 1893, and Wheeler continued alone. In 1904 he established a partnership with Charles L. Betton, Wheeler & Betton. Betton had left by 1914, and Wheeler established Wheeler & Johnson with Leonard P. Johnson.[5] By 1919, Wheeler had left the Lynn area, heading south to Boston. He did at least one project from his office in that city,[6] but had retired to his and his wife's home in Newton by 1920.[7]
William Wheelwright Northend was born in 1857 in Salem to later Massachusetts State Senator William Dummer Northend. He was the younger brother to Mary Harrod Northend.[8] Originally intending to practice law, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1880. Turning to architecture, he worked for Hartwell & Richardson and Cobb & Frost. He then attended M. I. T. for a year before studying in Paris.[9] Prior to establishing a firm with Wheeler, he had opened an office in Salem.[10] After the firm's dissolution, he practiced alone for a year before his death in 1894.[8] He was the architect of Swampscott's Phillips High School, opened in 1894[11] and demolished c.2018.[12] (Sources disagree on whether Northend or Wheeler was the architect.)[13]
Charles Louis Betton was born in 1870, and died in 1934 in Lynn. After leaving Wheeler, Betton established his own office. He designed the Pickering School in 1916 on Conomo Ave, Lynn.[14] He also did extensive industrial work.
Leonard P. Johnson was a consulting architect for Willett, Sears and Company until January 1, 1914, when he took over the office of George A. Cornet in Lynn after Cornet was elected the city's commissioner of public property.[15] By 1923, he was an architect and construction engineer for the American Woolen Company and had moved to the company's Shawsheen Village.[16] He was also an architect for Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott and did residential work in Andover, Massachusetts. He died on March 8, 1967, at the Masonic Home in Charlton, Massachusetts, at the age of 89.[17]
General Frederick W. Lander (for whom the Lynn G.A.R. Post is named) while attending Governor Dummer Academy began a longtime friendship with William Dummer Northend,[18] father of William Wheelwright Northend[8]
c.1891 - Lucien [sic] Newhall Block, 25-35 Central Ave and 30-33 Willow St, Lynn, Massachusetts[1][38] ("Lucien" is a mis-spelling of "Lucian")[39][40]
^ abThe American Contractor, Volume 40. F. W. Dodge Corporation (published 1919-10-11). 1919. p. 50. Retrieved 2020-02-22. Archt. Holman K. Wheeler, 120 Tremont st., Boston.
^Potter, John Myron, ed. (1892). The Oxford Club Souvenir. Potter & Potter, Printers. p. 48. Retrieved 2020-03-08. In selecting Wheeler & Northend for architects, they looked to a well-established, but young and enterprising firm to build for future reputation.
^ abTolles, Bryant F. Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide. 1983.
^Shoe and Leather Reporter, Volume 54. Shoe and Leather Reporter Company. 1893. p. 270. Retrieved 2020-03-08. Lucien Newhall block, corner of Oxford and Willow streets and Central avenue, Lynn, Mass.
^Diane Shephard (2002). Lynn in the Victorian Era. Arcadia Publishing. p. 71. ISBN9780738511375. Retrieved 2020-03-08. A home that did belong to a shoe manufacturer was that of Lucien Newhall
^David Newhall Johnson (1880). Sketches of Lynn, Or, The Changes of Fifty Years. T.P. Nichols, Printer. p. 478. Retrieved 2020-03-08. Lucian Newhall (w) Oxford street, between Willow street and Central avenue, 1875
^Public Documents of Massachusetts for the Year 1894. 1895.
^"Building Intelligence". The American Architect and Building News. 48 (155): 4. 1895-05-04. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
^"Proctor, Thomas E. Building" mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Web.
^American Architect and Building News 16 June 1900: xi.
^"The New Bacheller School, Lynnfield Street". Daily Evening Item. Lynn, Mass. 1901-01-23. Retrieved 2023-08-23. Holman K. Wheeler, the architect, has used the modern hospital construction
^"General News of the Drug World: Greater New York". American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, Volumes 52-53. American Druggist Publishing Company (published 1908-05-28). 1908. p. 296. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
^"Pinkham, Arthur House". Massachusetts Historical Commission. July 1977. Retrieved 2021-12-13. Common Name: Struzziero, Arthur Funeral Home - Lucia Lighting Company