Background
Woods, Alfred W. was born on January 30, 1857 in Saint Clair Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert and Elizabeth H. (Short) Woods.
Woods, Alfred W. was born on January 30, 1857 in Saint Clair Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert and Elizabeth H. (Short) Woods.
Education common schools and business college, Quincy, Illinois.
Woods collaborated on a variety of projects with fellow Nebraskan architect Artemus Roberts during 1890–1903. Wood"s and Robert"s most notable work was the construction of Fairview, commonly known as the William Jennings Bryan House (Lincoln, Nebraska), which was declared a United States.National Historic Landmark in 1963. William Jennings Bryan was a Nebraskan politician, who is argued as one of America"s most significant American politicians for the Democratic Party who ran three times as a candidate for the presidential election.
The Old Woods Brothers Company is a highly recognized building that is located in the Historic Haymarket in Lincoln.
Woods died at the age of 85 in 1942.
Married Haidee Finney, of Lincoln, Nebraska, December 30, 1885. Children: Mary East., Robert East., Ethel J., H. Lucille, Alfred West. (deceased), Edna L. Practiced architecture, Quincy, 1881-1882, Lincoln, Nebraska.