Background
George H. Wetherell was born in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of a former president of the Atlas National Bank.
George H. Wetherell was born in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of a former president of the Atlas National Bank.
After a public school education the youth studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts in preparation for a career in Architecture.
At an early age he entered the office of Nathaniel J. Bradlee (a prominent member of the profession) to acquire training and experience, and remained as draftsman for several years. Later he and Walter T. Winslow (member of the drafting force) were taken into partnership, and prior to Mr. Bradlee's death in 1888, did a great deal of commercial work in the city, particularly in the reconstruction period following the great fire of 1873. Succeeding later to the senior architect's practice, the two young men formed a partnership, and a decade later (1898) Henry Forbes Bigelow became a third member of the firm.
In collaboration with his partners Mr. Wetherell designed several of Boston's large hotels (including the Touraine on Boylston Street and the new Parker House at the corner of Tremont and School Streets), also the Phillips & Steinhert Building, Shreve, Crump & Low’s fine store, and others of varied types on Tremont Street facing the Common. After Mr. Winslow's death in 1909 Mr. Wetherell withdrew from the firm to practice independently with an office at #9 Park Street, and early in the 1920's retired to private life.
He was an early member of the Boston Society of Architects, A.I.A. and a Fellow of the Institute after 1892.