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[[File:St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea chapel, Rye, New Hampshire (May 30 2011).jpg|right|thumb|[[St. Andrew's By-The-Sea]], credited to ''Winslow & Wetherell'']]
[[File:St. Andrew's-by-the-Sea chapel, Rye, New Hampshire (May 30 2011).jpg|right|thumb|[[St. Andrew's By-The-Sea]], credited to ''Winslow & Wetherell'']]
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'''Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell''' (1872-1888) was an architecture firm in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>Boston Almanac. 1888</ref> Its principals were [[Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee]] (1829-1888), Walter Thacher Winslow (1843-1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854-1930). "In 1872, Bradlee made Walter T. Winslow, a draftsman in his office, a partner. George H. Wetherell was promoted to partner in 1884. After Mr. Bradlee’s death [in 1888], the firm continued as Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow (1888-1909)."<ref>Amy McFeeters and Sally Zimmerman. [http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/receptionhouse.html ''Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House, 583 Mount Auburn Street: Landmark Designation Report''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017011252/http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/receptionhouse.html |date=October 17, 2011 }}. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Historical Commission. December 8, 1992, updated November 20, 2002.</ref><ref>"Obituaries: Walter Thacher Winslow [1843-1909]." [http://communities.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wiki/AIA%20scans/Obits/QB_Jan1909.pdf ''American Institute of Architects, Quarterly Bulletin,'' vol. 9, no. 4]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (January 1909), p. 286.</ref>


'''Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell''' (1872–1888) was an architecture firm in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref>Boston Almanac. 1888</ref> Its principals were [[Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee]] (1829–1888), Walter Thacher Winslow (1843–1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854–1930). Most of the firm's work was local to Boston and New England, with a few commissions as far afield as Seattle and Kansas City.
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The firm also existed as '''Winslow & Wetherell'''. A number of works by the firm are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>


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The firm is variously credited. Nathaniel Bradlee had run a thriving solo practice in Boston since 1854. In 1872 Bradlee promoted Winslow to partner, creating '''Bradlee & Winslow''' for 12 years. (Bradlee appears to retain solo credit for some projects afterward, for example [[Danvers State Hospital]].) In 1884 Wetherell was also promoted, creating '''Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.'''<ref>Amy McFeeters and Sally Zimmerman: [http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/receptionhouse.html ''Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House, 583 Mount Auburn Street: Landmark Designation Report''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017011252/http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/receptionhouse.html |date=October 17, 2011 }}. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Historical Commission. December 8, 1992, updated November 20, 2002.</ref><ref>"Obituaries: Walter Thacher Winslow [1843-1909]." [http://communities.aia.org/sites/hdoaa/wiki/AIA%20scans/Obits/QB_Jan1909.pdf ''American Institute of Architects, Quarterly Bulletin,'' vol. 9, no. 4]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (January 1909), p. 286.</ref>

Bradlee died in 1888. '''Winslow & Wetherell''' then formed their partnership as Bradlee's successor firm.<ref>{{cite web |title=Proctor Building Study Report - 1983 |url=https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/proctor-building-study-report.pdf |website=Boston.gov |publisher=Boston Landmarks Commission |accessdate=27 March 2019}}</ref> Architect [[Henry Forbes Bigelow]] (1867-1929) joined the organization around 1898, after which the partnership was credited as '''Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow''', then '''Winslow & Bigelow''', and in its last incarnation '''Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth'''. Winslow died in 1909 and control of the partnership went to Bigelow.

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A number of works by the firm are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

== Work ==
[[File:Banigan_building,_Providence_Rhode_Island.jpg|thumb|Providence's Banigan Building (1896)]]
Works include (with attribution):
Works include (with attribution):

* [[Wigglesworth Building]], Boston, 1873 (Bradlee,Winslow & Wetherell)
* [[Wigglesworth Building]], 89-83 Franklin St., Boston, 1873 (Bradlee & Winslow)
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* [[Chickering Hall, Boston (1883)|Chickering Hall]], Tremont St., Boston, 1883 (Bradlee,Winslow & Wetherell)<ref>"The new Chickering: a pretty hall in which exercises were rendered yesterday." ''Boston Daily Globe,'' November 8, 1883.</ref>
* [[Old New England Building]], Kansas City, Missouri, 1886 (Bradlee,Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[St. Andrew's By-The-Sea]], Church Rd., 0.2&nbsp;mi. SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A [[Rye, NH]], 1876 (credited to Winslow and Wetherell), [[National Register of Historic Places|NRHP]]-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[Bijou Theatre (Boston)|Bijou Theatre]], Boston, 1882 (Bradlee & Winslow)
* [[Maine Central Railroad General Office Building]], 222-224 Saint John Street, Portland, Maine, 1889, NRHP-listed
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* [[Chickering Hall, Boston (1883)|Chickering Hall]], Tremont St., Boston, 1883 (Bradlee & Winslow)<ref>"The new Chickering: a pretty hall in which exercises were rendered yesterday." ''Boston Daily Globe,'' November 8, 1883.</ref>
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* [[Children's Hospital Boston]], Huntington Ave. (Bradlee,Winslow & Wetherell)<ref>Edwin Munroe Bacon and George Edward Ellis, eds. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hRqFvLB0S7EC ''Bacon's Dictionary of Boston''] (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 93.</ref>
* [[Old New England Building]], Kansas City, Missouri, 1886 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
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* [[Walter Baker & Company|Baker Chocolate]] mill complex, (Bradlee,Winslow & Wetherell) [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], Massachusetts<ref>Anthony M. Sammarco. ''The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History.'' Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.</ref>
* [[Building at 30-34 Station Street]], Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[Union Station (Portland, Maine)|Union Station]], [[Portland, Maine]], 1888 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)
* [[Wigglesworth Building]], 89-83 Franklin St., Boston, Massachusetts (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[Maine Central Railroad General Office Building]], 222-224 Saint John Street, Portland, Maine, 1889 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed, built out in stages through 1916
* [[The Oaks (Staunton, Virginia)|The Oaks]], 437 E. Beverly St. [[Staunton, Virginia]] (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[The Oaks (Staunton, Virginia)|The Oaks]], 437 E. Beverly St. [[Staunton, Virginia]], 1890 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[St. Andrew's By-The-Sea]], Church Rd., 0.2&nbsp;mi. SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A [[Rye, NH]] (Winslow and Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[Building at 30–34 Station Street]], Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* Boston Block, [[Pioneer Square, Seattle]], Washington, 1896 (razed 1921)
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*One or more works in [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], both sides of Neponset River [[Boston, MA]] (Bradlee,Winslow,& Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* Banigan Building, [[Providence, Rhode Island]], Providence's first skyscraper, 1896 (Winslow & Wetherell)<ref>{{cite web |title=Banigan Building |url=http://guide.ppsri.org/property/banigan-building |website=Guide to Providence Architecture |publisher=Providence Preservation Society |accessdate=6 October 2019}}</ref>
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*One or more works in boundary increase to [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], roughly: Adams, River, Medway Sts., Millers Lane, Eliot and Adams Sts. [[Boston, MA]] (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell; Winslow & Wetherell; et al.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
* [[Steinert Hall]], Boston, 1896 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[Boston Hotel Buckminster]], Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[Hotel Touraine]], Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[St. Mark's School (Massachusetts)|St. Mark's School]], [[Southborough, Massachusetts]], 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[Needham Town Hall Historic District]], Needham, Massachusetts, 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[Compton Building]], Boston, 1903 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* [[Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building]], Boston, 1906 (Winslow & Bigelow)
* Antiquitarian Hall, for the [[American Antiquarian Society]], Worcester, Massachusetts, 1910 (Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth)
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* [[Children's Hospital Boston]], Huntington Ave. (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)<ref>Edwin Munroe Bacon and George Edward Ellis, eds. [https://books.google.com/books?id=hRqFvLB0S7EC ''Bacon's Dictionary of Boston''] (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 93.</ref>
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* [[Walter Baker & Company|Baker Chocolate]] mill complex, (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell) [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], Massachusetts<ref>Anthony M. Sammarco. ''The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History.'' Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.</ref>
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* One or more works in [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], both sides of Neponset River [[Boston, MA]] (Bradlee, Winslow,& Wetherell), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>
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* One or more works in boundary increase to [[Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District]], roughly: Adams, River, Medway Sts., Millers Lane, Eliot and Adams Sts. [[Boston, MA]] (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell; Winslow & Wetherell; et al.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/>

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== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Wigglesworth (Manpower) Bldg..jpg|[[Wigglesworth Building]] (1873), Boston
File:Old New England Building.jpg|[[Old New England Building]] (1886), Kansas City, Missouri
File:Detroit Publishing - Union Station, Portland, Me..jpg|[[Union Station (Portland, Maine)|Union Station]] (1888), [[Portland, Maine]]
File:HotelTouraine ca1910 Boston.png|[[Hotel Touraine]] (1897), Boston
File:Worcester Antiquarian Society - panoramio (3).jpg|Antiquitarian Hall (1910), Worcester, Massachusetts
</gallery>


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Historicist architects]]
[[Category:Historicist architects]]
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St. Andrew's By-The-Sea, credited to Winslow & Wetherell

Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell (1872–1888) was an architecture firm in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Its principals were Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (1829–1888), Walter Thacher Winslow (1843–1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854–1930). Most of the firm's work was local to Boston and New England, with a few commissions as far afield as Seattle and Kansas City.

The firm is variously credited. Nathaniel Bradlee had run a thriving solo practice in Boston since 1854. In 1872 Bradlee promoted Winslow to partner, creating Bradlee & Winslow for 12 years. (Bradlee appears to retain solo credit for some projects afterward, for example Danvers State Hospital.) In 1884 Wetherell was also promoted, creating Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.[2][3]

Bradlee died in 1888. Winslow & Wetherell then formed their partnership as Bradlee's successor firm.[4] Architect Henry Forbes Bigelow (1867-1929) joined the organization around 1898, after which the partnership was credited as Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, then Winslow & Bigelow, and in its last incarnation Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth. Winslow died in 1909 and control of the partnership went to Bigelow.

A number of works by the firm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]

Work

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Providence's Banigan Building (1896)

Works include (with attribution):

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.
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References

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  1. ^ Boston Almanac. 1888
  2. ^ Amy McFeeters and Sally Zimmerman: Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House, 583 Mount Auburn Street: Landmark Designation Report Archived October 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Historical Commission. December 8, 1992, updated November 20, 2002.
  3. ^ "Obituaries: Walter Thacher Winslow [1843-1909]." American Institute of Architects, Quarterly Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 4[permanent dead link‍] (January 1909), p. 286.
  4. ^ "Proctor Building Study Report - 1983" (PDF). Boston.gov. Boston Landmarks Commission. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  6. ^ "The new Chickering: a pretty hall in which exercises were rendered yesterday." Boston Daily Globe, November 8, 1883.
  7. ^ "Banigan Building". Guide to Providence Architecture. Providence Preservation Society. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  8. ^ Edwin Munroe Bacon and George Edward Ellis, eds. Bacon's Dictionary of Boston (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 93.
  9. ^ Anthony M. Sammarco. The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009.
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