Bradlee, 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.

St. Andrew's By-The-Sea, credited to Winslow & Wetherell

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

Providence's Banigan Building (1896)

Works include (with attribution):

• Wigglesworth Building, 89-83 Franklin St., Boston, 1873 (Bradlee & Winslow)
• St. Andrew's By-The-Sea, Church Rd., 0.2 mi. SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A Rye, NH, 1876 (credited to Winslow and Wetherell), NRHP-listed^[5]
• Bijou Theatre, Boston, 1882 (Bradlee & Winslow)
• Chickering Hall, Tremont St., Boston, 1883 (Bradlee & Winslow)^[6]
• Old New England Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1886 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed^[5]
• Union Station, Portland, Maine, 1888 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)
• 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, 437 E. Beverly St. Staunton, Virginia, 1890 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed^[5]
• Building at 30–34 Station Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed^[5]
• Boston Block, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington, 1896 (razed 1921)
• Banigan Building, Providence, Rhode Island, Providence's first skyscraper, 1896 (Winslow & Wetherell)^[7]
• Steinert Hall, Boston, 1896 (Winslow & Bigelow)
• Boston Hotel Buckminster, Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
• Hotel Touraine, Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)
• 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)
• Children's Hospital Boston, Huntington Ave. (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)^[8]
• Baker Chocolate mill complex, (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell) Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, Massachusetts^[9]
• One or more works in Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, both sides of Neponset River Boston, MA (Bradlee, Winslow,& Wetherell), NRHP-listed^[5]
• 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^[5]

Gallery

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  Wigglesworth Building (1873), Boston
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  Old New England Building (1886), Kansas City, Missouri
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  Union Station (1888), Portland, Maine
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  Hotel Touraine (1897), Boston
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  Antiquitarian Hall (1910), Worcester, Massachusetts

References

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. "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.