Andrew Wilson (architect) explained

Andrew Wilson
Birth Name:	Andrew Oswald Wilson
Birth Place:	Victoria, Australia
Birth Date:	12 October 1866
Death Place:	Melbourne, Australia
Significant Buildings:	Boulder Town Hall

Andrew Oswald Wilson (1866–1950), known professionally as A. Oswald Wilson,^[1] 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 Eastern Goldfields (in December 1899^{[2] [3]}), where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins. He was president of the Mechanics' Literary and Debating Society (also known as the Boulder Literary Society) in Boulder from 1904^[4] to 1908,^[5] as well as active in the Boulder Benevolent Society.^[6] One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall for which he submitted designs in 1907.^[7] In December 1908, he moved back to Perth and practised from Forrest Chambers (at 62 St George's Terrace).

On 17 December 1910, aged 44, he married May Livingstone in Perth, and in 1917 they left Australia for England, where Wilson enlisted in the Army.

Wilson died on 19 June 1950 at St Andrew's Hospital in Melbourne.^[8] He was 83.

Buildings

In chronological order.

Perth:

• 1899: West Perth Tennis Club (tennis courts at rear of West Perth Presbyterian Church)^[9]

Boulder (where he was "responsible for most of the more prominent buildings about the 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^[10]

Perth:

• 1909: George R. Brown's residence (The Avenue, Nedlands)
• 1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall (cnr. Hay and Colin Streets; precursor to the Ross Memorial Church)^{[11] [12]}
• 1914: Dunollie, his own residence (36 Congdon St, Swanbourne)

See also

• Edwin Summerhayes

Notes and References

1. News: LITERARY AND DEBATING . . 11 . 3169 . Western Australia . 7 July 1908 . 30 July 2019 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: PERSONAL. 1908-12-11. Evening Star (Boulder, WA : 1898 - 1921). 2020-04-20. 3.
3. News: Personal. . . III . 993 . Western Australia . 4 July 1901 . 30 July 2019 . 3 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: Boulder Literary Society. . . 8 . 2800 . Western Australia . 14 September 1904 . 30 July 2019 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
5. News: LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY. . . 10 . 2801 . Western Australia . 16 April 1907 . 30 July 2019 . 4 (SECOND EDITION) . National Library of Australia.
6. News: BOULDER BENEVOLENT SUNDAY . . 9 . 2579 . Western Australia . 27 July 1906 . 18 August 2019 . 3 (SECOND EDITION) . National Library of Australia.
7. News: BOULDER TOWN HALL. . . WA . 20 August 1907 . 20 November 2015 . 16 . National Library of Australia.
8. News: Family Notices . . 32,386 . Victoria, Australia . 20 June 1950 . 25 June 2023 . 18 . National Library of Australia.
9. News: LAWN TENNIS. . . XIV . 683 . Western Australia . 27 January 1899 . 28 August 2021 . 34 . National Library of Australia.
10. News: BOULDER BUDGET. . The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919) . Kalgoorlie, WA . 23 February 1908 . 20 November 2015 . 9 . National Library of Australia.
11. News: Untitled . . XXVIII . 1,440 . Western Australia . 1 August 1913 . 16 August 2019 . 31 . National Library of Australia.
12. News: WEST PERTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. . . XXIX . 3,456 . Western Australia . 12 May 1913 . 16 August 2019 . 7 . National Library of Australia.