James Gilbert Chandler (August 4, 1856 – January 17, 1924) was a prominent architect in
Racine, Wisconsin
Racine ( ) is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River (Wisconsin), Root River, south of Milwaukee and north of Chicago. It is the List ...
.
Personal life
Chandler was born at
Berlin Falls, New Hampshire, on August 4, 1856, to Milton Walker Chandler and Sarah Grover Chandler.
[White, J. T. 1933. ''The National Cyclopædia of American Biography''. New York: James T. White & Company, p. 340.] After attending school in
Zumbrota, Minnesota
Zumbrota is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the North Fork of the Zumbro River. The population was 3,252 at the 2010 census. It promotes itself as "the only Zumbrota in the world."
History
Zumbrota was claimed as a to ...
, and
Madison, Wisconsin
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, he studied architecture in Madison, and then started working as an architect in 1879.
In 1885 he married Francis Mary Evans, with whom he had four children.
He died on January 17, 1924, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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.
Work
Chandler's firm was known as Chandler & Parks.
He was involved in the design of several building listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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(NRHP). He designed the
Shoop Building
The Shoop Building is a historic office building in downtown Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. Located next to the Root River at 215 State Street and 222 Main Street, its six-story height and contrast of Cream City brick and red sandstone make it a distinct ...
and the
Racine YMCA (both NRHP listed). Chandler was in charge of remodeling and enlarging of all three of architect
References
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People from Kenosha, Wisconsin
Architects from Wisconsin
1856 births
1924 deaths