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Re: (rshsdepot) Stockbridge, MA depot architect
Here's a little I could find on Frank Waller. While it doesn't address
design of the Stockbridge station, it does note he was an architect and that
he had a connection with Stockbridge though his first marriage.
Frank WALLER, artist, was born in New York city, June 12, 1842; son of
Joseph Fernando and Martha (Brookes) Waller; grandson of Henry and Melinda
(Gordon) Ver Planck Waller and of Joshua and Martha (Moore) Brookes, natives
of London and Norwich, England, and residents of New York city;
great-grandson of Col. Alexander Gordon of New York; great2-grandson of Gen.
James and Mary (Ball) Gordon, and great3-grandson of the Rev. Eliphalet Ball
of Ballston, N.Y., known as "third cousin" of General Washington. Frank
Waller attended the Free academy, New York city, 1863, being obliged to
leave on account of ill health; was engaged in mercantile pursuits, 1863-68,
and as an artist, 1868-88, studying under John G. Chapman in Rome, Italy,
1870-71, and spending the following year in travel in Egypt. In 1888 he
established himself as an architect in New York city, making his home in
Morristown, N.J. He was twice married; first, June 6, 1883, to Almira Stone,
daughter of the Hon. Edward Weeks B. and Catherine (Peet) Canning of
Stockbridge, Mass., and secondly, Dec. 28, 1896, to Elizabeth Vandever,
daughter of Stanton and Margaret (Vandever) Dorsey of Germantown, Pa. He was
one of the incorporators of the Art Students' league of New York city, in
1875, serving as its first corporate president, 1875-77; was honorary
secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund society, [p.296] and of the Ur
Exploration society; a fellow of the National Academy of Design; member of
the Architectural League of New York, and honorary member of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Source: http://www.alleylaw.net/who.html
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <jdent1_@_optonline.net>
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Cc: <jrol_@_verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:26 AM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Stockbridge, MA depot architect
> Please read the 3 emails below regarding the architect of the Stockbridge
> depot. Does anyone have more information or sources for information on
> Frank Waller, or for the assertions of which architect designed the depot?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Dent
> Oakland, NJ
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Joan Olshansky <jrol_@_verizon.net>
>> To: jdent1_@_optonline.net <jdent1@optonline.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:34 PM
>> Subject: depot architects
>>
>> Sir: In the course of publishing a brochure of historic
>> properties of the
>> Gilded Age in Lenox and Stockbridge Massachusetts, I discovered
>> who the
>> previously unknown architect of the Stockbridge station/depot
>> (HousatonicRailroad) was but have been unable to find other
>> buildings he may have
>> designed. The architect was Frank Waller who had a long and
>> successful career as an artist before he took up architecture in
>> 1887. He designed the
>> Stockbridge station in 1892. Do you know if he designed any other
>> stations?(Your link to station architects is not working.) Thank
>> you for any help
>> you may provide. Joan Olshansky
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Dent [jdent1_@_optonline.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:55 PM
>> To: Joan Olshansky
>> Subject: Re: depot architects
>>
>> Joan,
>>
>> In Janet Potter's 1996 book "Great American Railroad Stations" the
>> Stockbridge depot is listed as being designed by New York City's
>> McKim, Mead
>> & White, the well known architectural firm. Was Waller an
>> employee of the
>> NYC firm?
>>
>> Jim Dent
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Joan Olshansky <jrol_@_verizon.net>
>>Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:28 am
>>Subject: RE: depot architects
>>
>> Jim: the book is wrong; it definitely was not done by MM&W but by
>> Frank Waller. An article in the American Architect and Building
>> News includes a
>> drawing of the station signed by Waller and the local newspaper
>> contains many articles about the building of the station and the
>> architect, Frank
>> Waller. It has been a hope of some Stockbridge residents that
>> Stanford White was responsible for the station, as he had done
>> other buildings in
>> town but unfortunately, it was the unknown Waller. Joan Olshansky
>
>
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