Background
James Bosley Noel Wyatt was born in 1847 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
James Bosley Noel Wyatt was born in 1847 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
He was graduated at Harvard University with the class of 1870. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Paris at the Atlier Vaudremer of the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts the young man acquired an architectural training.
Following his return to Baltimore, he established an independent office for practice. In 1880 he entered into partnership with Joseph Evans Sperry (Wyatt & Sperry), and during the next few years they served as architects of several business buildings, also St. Michael's and All Saints’ churches.
When in 1887 the firm was dissolved, Mr. Wyatt formed a partnership with William C. Nolting. Acquiring a large and diversified practice prior to the turn of the century, the firm was commissioned to plan several early structures in Baltimore, among them the Keyser Building (where the partners established a new office); the Baltimore Court House (won in a competition of 1898); and the Fifth Regiment Armory.
Following the turn of the century Wyatt & Nolting served as architects of Garrett Office Building (1913); the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Hopkins Hospital (1912); the Federal Land Bank Building, a number of residences in the Roland Park section of the city, and at Lock Haven, Md., several units of the State Training School for Boys. During the twenties when plans were under way for a new campus of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Wyatt and Walter Cook, together with F. L. Olmstead, Landscape Architect, served on an Advisory Board considering the architectural plan and improvement of the grounds.
In addition to Wyatt & Noltings successfully completed commissions in Baltimore, the partners designed a Sanitarium for Tubercular Patients at SabUlasville, Md. several hospitals in various locations, and in Washington, ry the War Risk Insurance Building (1912-20), later taken over by the Veterans Administration.
Mr. Wyatt was elected to the local Chapter, A.I.A. in 1876, and in 1880 (the year in which he started practice under the firm name) was raised to Institute Fellowship.