Name Holman Wheeler Role Architect | Died 1943 | |
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Holman K. Wheeler (1859–1943) was an American architect, practicing in Lynn and Boston, Massachusetts.
Contents
- Life
- Partners
- Wheeler Northend 1884 1893
- Holman K Wheeler 1893 1904
- Wheeler Betton 1904 1914
- Wheeler Johnson 1914 c1918
- References
Life
Holman King Wheeler was born in 1859 in Lynn. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then located in Boston. He graduated in 1882. He had worked in the offices of Lynn architects beginning in 1878, and began working on his own by 1883. 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. By 1919, Wheeler had left the Lynn area, heading south to Boston. He did at least one project from his office in that city, but had retired to his and his wife's home in Newton by 1920. Upon his death in 1943, he was buried in Lynn.
Partners
William Wheelwright Northend was born in 1857 in Salem. 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. Prior to establishing a firm with Wheeler, he had opened an office in Salem. After the firm's dissolution, he practiced alone for a year before his death in 1894. He was the architect of Swampscott's Phillips High School, opened in 1894 and now altered beyond recognition.
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. He also did extensive industrial work.
The identity of Johnson is currently unknown.