Background
William Sydney Wicks was born in 1854 Trenton, United States.
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Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo
Marine Bank Building, Buffalo
WILLIAM SYDNEY WICKS
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He received a formal education at Cornell University. In acquiring an architectural training Mr. Wicks completed a course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
He gained experience while employed in offices of leading firms in western New York.
In 1880 he joined Edward B. Green in partnership, and for a brief period (three years) the firm carried on work in Auburn, N. Y., subsequently opened an office in Buffalo and in that city established an excellent reputation in designing various public and business structures. Among Green and Wicks' most successfully executed commissions were the Albright Art Gallery (1905) of modified French Renaissance design and one of the firm’s most distinguished buildings; Buffalo Savings Bank and Fidelity Bank Building; the new City Hospital; South Park School; D. S. Morgan Building; Marine Bank Building, and the Chamber of Commerce, all in Buffalo.
Prior to 1917, when the partnership was dissolved, the firm was called upon to plan buildings in other cities, including the Agriculture Building at Cornell University, Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio (Harry W. Wächter of Toledo, Associate Architect), and the Ontario Power Plant in Niagara Falls, N. Y.
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A member of the Buffalo Chapter, A.I.A for many years, elected to Institute Fellowship in 1889, Mr. Wicks was held in high esteem by his confreres.
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