James Gilbert Chandler

James Gilbert Chandler (August 4, 1856 – January 17, 1924) was a prominent architect in Racine, Wisconsin.

Personal life

Chandler was born at Berlin Falls, New Hampshire on August 4, 1856 to Milton Walker Chandler and Sarah Grover Chandler.[1] After attending school in Zumbrota, Minnesota and Madison, Wisconsin, he studied architecture in Madison, and then started working as an architect in 1879.[1] In 1885 he married Francis Mary Evans, with whom he had four children.[1] He died on January 17, 1924 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[1][2]

Work

Chandler's firm was known as Chandler & Parks.[1][3] He was involved in the design of several building listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[4] He designed the Shoop Building and the Racine YMCA (both NRHP listed).[5] Chandler was in charge of remodeling and enlarging of all three of architect Lucas Bradley's Garfield schools.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 White, J. T. 1933. The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: James T. White & Company, p. 340.
  2. ↑ "James Chandler, Racine, Is Dead". Manitowoc Herald-Times. January 18, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved January 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin: Containing Biographical Sketches of Business and Professional Men and of Many of the Early Settled Families (J.H. Beers & Co J.H. Beers & Company, 1906 - Kenosha (Wis.) - 645 pages
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