Charles F. Wilcox Explained

Charles Field Wilcox^[1]
Nationality:	American
Birth Date:	January 8, 1845
Birth Place:	Georgia
Death Date:	July 12, 1905
Death Place:	Providence, Rhode Island
Practice:	Hartshorn & Wilcox, C. F. Wilcox, Wilcox & Congdon
Significant Buildings:	Congdon Street Baptist Church, Union Baptist Church, Burrows Block, Conant Memorial Church

Charles F. Wilcox (1845 - 1905) was an American architect practicing in Providence, Rhode Island.

Life

Wilcox was born in 1845 in Georgia, to a family that relocated to Providence in his infancy.^[2] He trained with local architect Charles P. Hartshorn, becoming his partner in 1873. Their firm, Hartshorn & Wilcox, lasted until the end of 1879, briefly before Hartshorn's death in 1880.^[3] Wilcox continued practicing alone until 1895, when he made draftsman Gideon Gardner Congdon partner in Wilcox & Congdon. This firm was dissolved in 1899 and Wilcox again continued alone.^[4] He died in Providence in 1905.

Architectural works

Hartshorn & Wilcox, 1873-1879

• 1874 - Congdon Street Baptist Church, 15 Congdon St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
• 1874 - Wayland Building, 128 N Main St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
  • Also home to the offices of church architect James Murphy^[6]
• 1875 - Fourth Baptist Church (Remodeling), Howell St, Providence, Rhode Island^[7]
  • Demolished
• 1876 - Union Baptist Church, 10 East St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
  • Commissioned by the Third Baptist Church
• 1877 - Charles Ackerman Duplex, 61-63 Chapin Ave, Providence, Rhode Island^[8]

C. F. Wilcox, 1880-1895

• 1880 - Burrows Block, 741 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island^[9]
• 1883 - First Baptist Church, 30 Peirce St, East Greenwich, Rhode Island^[10]
• 1883 - South Baptist Church, 185-187 Ocean St, Providence, Rhode Island^[11]
  • Demolished
• 1884 - Charles Matteson House, 112 Prospect St, Providence, Rhode Island^[12]
• 1886 - Cyrus E. Lapham House, 64 Harrison St, Pawtucket, Rhode Island^[13]
• 1890 - Conant Memorial Church, 135 Center Rd, Dudley, Massachusetts^[14]
• 1893 - Dudley Hill School, Center Rd, Dudley, Massachusetts^[15]
  • Now owned by Nichols College
• 1895 - Aldrich Free Public Library, 299 Main St, Moosup, Connecticut

Wilcox & Congdon, 1895-1899

• 1896 - George M. Snow House, 24 Alumni Ave, Providence, Rhode Island^[16]

C. F. Wilcox, 1899-1905

• 1902 - Narragansett Baptist Church (Old), 20 Ferry Rd, Saunderstown, Rhode Island^[17]
  • Now serves as the local post office^[18]

Notes and References

1. Building Age Aug. 1905: 202.
2. Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Rhode Island. 1892.
3. New England Families: Genealogical and Memorial. Ed. William Richard Cutter. Vol. 3. 1914.
4. "Gideon Gardner Congdon". Congdon Chronicle Jan. 1927: 148.
5. Woodward, Wm. McKenzie. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources. 1986.
6. The Providence Directory and Rhode Island Business Directory. 1889.
7. [John Hutchins Cady|Cady, John Hutchins]
8. PPS Records for 61-63 Chapin Avenue. 2007.
9. American Architect and Building News 10 April 1880: 160.
10. American Architect and Building News 7 July 1883: 3.
11. Sanitary Engineer 4 Oct. 1883: 426.
12. Engineering Record 5 Feb. 1885: 217.
13. American Architect and Building News 1886: 243.
14. A Souvineer of the Conant Memorial Church. 1893.
15. "Currier Center". http://hcap.artstor.org/. Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Web.
16. Olney Street-Alumni Avenue Historic District NRHP Nomination. 1989.
17. Minutes of the Rhode Island Baptist Anniversaries. 1902.
18. http://focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=95a4609c-67ec-49af-8b74-3ed7b21fff04 Saunderstown Historic District NRHP Nomination