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Andrew Oswald Wilson

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Occupation
  
Architect

Name
  
Andrew Wilson

Died
  
1950


Andrew Oswald Wilson (1866–1950) was an early-20th-century Western Australian architect. Born and trained as a carpenter in Victoria, he moved first to Perth and then to the goldfields, where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins. One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall, for which he submitted designs in 1907. In 1908 he moved back to Perth and practiced from Forrest Chambers (at 62 St George’s Terrace).

In 1917 he and his wife May left Australia for England, where Wilson enlisted in the Army.

Wilson died on 19 June 1950 at St Andrew's Hospital in Melbourne. He was 84.

Buildings

In chronological order.

Boulder:

  • St Matthew's Rectory and Church
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union Girls' Home
  • Dr Frank Sawell's residence and surgery (121 Piesse Street)
  • 1908: Boulder Town Hall
  • Perth:

  • 1909: George R. Brown's residence (The Avenue, Nedlands)
  • 1913: Brick church hall (cnr. Hay and Colin Streets)
  • 1914: Dunollie, his own residence (36 Congdon St, Swanbourne)
  • References

    Andrew Oswald Wilson Wikipedia