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Edmund March Wheelwright was born on September 14, 1854 in Roxbury, Massachussets, the son of George William and Hannah Giddings (Tyler) Wheelwright, and a direct descendant of John Wheelwright.
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Edmund March Wheelwright was born on September 14, 1854 in Roxbury, Massachussets, the son of George William and Hannah Giddings (Tyler) Wheelwright, and a direct descendant of John Wheelwright.
He was educated at the Roxbury Latin School, received the degree of B. A. from Harvard in 1876, and then studied architecture, first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later in Paris.
He worked successively in the offices of Peabody and Stearns (Boston), McKim, Mead and Bigelow (later McKim, Mead and White, New York), and E. P. Treadwell (Albany). In 1883 he opened his own office in Boston; in 1888 he formed a partnership with Parkman B. Haven which in 1910 became Wheelwright, Haven and Hoyt. He held the position of city architect from 1891 to 1895, when, partly at his own suggestion, the office was abolished. He was appointed consulting architect, however, and during much of his remaining life he was intimately associated with a great deal of city building. As city architect his work consisted chiefly of hospitals, schools, and fire engine and police stations. In them all he set a new high level for municipal architecture in the United States. Charles Eliot Norton praised him because he "made the beauty of his buildings to reside in their proportions, and in the lines and arrangement of their doors and windows; and he had the strength to discard the superfluous ornament which another man might have been tempted to add". In 1900 he was made chief designer of the Cambridge bridge, and undertook a careful study of European bridges as a preliminary to his work. The actual bridge, magnificent when first built, has had its architectural effect spoiled by the later raising of the level of the Charles River by several feet. In 1900 Horticultural Hall was finished, from the designs of Wheelwright and Haven. They were also the architects of the Boston Opera House, completed in 1908. Wheelwright's last work was the $2, 000, 000 bridge at Hartford, Connecticut It was possibly overwork in connection with this that led to his breakdown, and to his death two years later from melancholia in a sanitarium in Thompsonville, Connecticut His most important consulting work was on the new building of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (with R. Clipston Sturgis), of which Guy Lowell was architect, and on the Cleveland Museum of Art (with Henry W. Kent), designed by Hubbel and Benes. Wheelwright's architectural imagination was wide; he sought the monumental, classic solution. Stylistically he was catholic, even erratic. Some of his schools are Italianate, some Georgian, some rather nondescript; the half-timber of the hospitals and the Marine Park Bath House is blatant, and the Boston Opera House and Horticultural Hall have quasi-Georgian red brick and white marble, and terra-cotta detail overheavy and spectacular. Yet in all the work there is a counter-trend apparent, based on strict practicality and basic simplicity; and some of the municipal work, like the Hook and Ladder House No. 1 and the Eustis School, has a colonial style remarkably pure and charming for its date. In much of the later work, as in his bridges and subway entrances, this trend towards a rational simplicity has led to such delightful results as the brick house for W. S. Patten, South Natick, Massachussets (1907), and the rationalized monumentality of the Farragut School in Boston (1904). He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1891, and served two terms as director. He was the author of School Architecture (1901) and of many scholarly articles in the architectural press. His work served as the basis for Municipal Architecture in Boston, from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright (1898), edited by Francis W. Chandler.
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Wheelwright married Elizabeth Boott Brooks of Boston on June 18, 1887. They had two sons and a daughter.