Joseph Everett Chandler | |
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Born | December 11, 1863 |
Died | August 19, 1945 |
Occupation | Architect |
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Joseph Everett Chandler (December 11, 1863 – August 19, 1945) was an American architect. He is considered a major proponent of the Colonial Revival architecture. [1]
Joseph Everett Chandler was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of a butcher. [2] He grew up driving carriage-loads of tourists around Plymouth to see its sites. [3]
Chandler attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and was an apprentice of McKim, Mead & White, Charles Howard Walker, William Pretyman, Burnham and Root, and Rotch & Tilden. [3]
He is considered a pioneering designer of queer space.[ clarification needed] He designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew, which inspired interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper to build his own Beauport next door. [3]
He died in Wellesley, Massachusetts on August 19, 1945. [2]
Chandler is mostly known to have overseen the restoration of the Paul Revere House and the House of Seven Gables. [4] He worked with George Warren Cole. [3]
With George Francis Dow, he conceived Pioneer Village as a means to demonstrate life in 1630. [5] [6]
In 1892 he published The Colonial Architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and in 1916 The colonial house with R. M. McBride & company. [7]
Joseph Everett Chandler | |
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Born | December 11, 1863 |
Died | August 19, 1945 |
Occupation | Architect |
Buildings | |
Projects |
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Joseph Everett Chandler (December 11, 1863 – August 19, 1945) was an American architect. He is considered a major proponent of the Colonial Revival architecture. [1]
Joseph Everett Chandler was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of a butcher. [2] He grew up driving carriage-loads of tourists around Plymouth to see its sites. [3]
Chandler attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and was an apprentice of McKim, Mead & White, Charles Howard Walker, William Pretyman, Burnham and Root, and Rotch & Tilden. [3]
He is considered a pioneering designer of queer space.[ clarification needed] He designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew, which inspired interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper to build his own Beauport next door. [3]
He died in Wellesley, Massachusetts on August 19, 1945. [2]
Chandler is mostly known to have overseen the restoration of the Paul Revere House and the House of Seven Gables. [4] He worked with George Warren Cole. [3]
With George Francis Dow, he conceived Pioneer Village as a means to demonstrate life in 1630. [5] [6]
In 1892 he published The Colonial Architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and in 1916 The colonial house with R. M. McBride & company. [7]