Background
John Coxhead was born in 1863 at Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States.
John Coxhead was born in 1863 at Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States.
He acquired a basic architectural education in New York City.
After a short period of employment in Boston with the firm of Ware & Van Brunt, set up his own office in Buffalo in 1891. In association with the late Wr. W. Carlin he was co-architect of a number of commercial buildings in the city, and following the death of his partner continued practice under his own name for more than twenty years. Among his best known works were the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church in Buffalo, 1895; City Hospital at Jamestown, N. Y., 1908; Market Street Building, Buffalo (Carlin & Coxhead); Phenix Club, Buffalo, 1896; and Tuberculosis Hospital at Perrysburg, N. Y., 1910.
Mr. Coxhead spent his latter years in Washington.