Charles F. Wilcox

Charles Field Wilcox[1]
Born	January 8, 1845 Georgia
Died	July 12, 1905 Providence, Rhode Island
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Hartshorn & Wilcox, C. F. Wilcox, Wilcox & Congdon
Buildings	Congdon Street Baptist Church, Union Baptist Church, Burrows Block, Conant Memorial Church

Congdon Street Church, Providence, 1874.

Burrows Block, Providence, 1880.

Conant Memorial Church, Dudley, 1890.

Aldrich Free Public Library, Moosup, 1894.

Charles F. Wilcox (1845-1905) was an American architect practicing in Providence, Rhode Island.

Life

Wilcox was born in 1845 in Georgia, to a family that relocated to Providence in his infancy.^[2] He trained with local architect Charles P. Hartshorn, becoming his partner in 1873. Their firm, Hartshorn & Wilcox, lasted until the end of 1879, briefly before Hartshorn's death in 1880.^[3] Wilcox continued practicing alone until 1895, when he made draftsman Gideon Gardner Congdon partner in Wilcox & Congdon. This firm was dissolved in 1899 and Wilcox again continued alone.^[4] He died in Providence in 1905.

Architectural works

Hartshorn & Wilcox, 1873-1879

• 1874 - Congdon Street Baptist Church, 15 Congdon St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
• 1874 - Wayland Building, 128 N Main St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
  • Also home to the offices of church architect James Murphy^[6]
• 1875 - Fourth Baptist Church (Remodeling), Howell St, Providence, Rhode Island^[7]
  • Demolished
• 1876 - Union Baptist Church, 10 East St, Providence, Rhode Island^[5]
  • Commissioned by the Third Baptist Church
• 1877 - Charles Ackerman Duplex, 61-63 Chapin Ave, Providence, Rhode Island^[8]

C. F. Wilcox, 1880-1895

• 1880 - Burrows Block, 741 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island^[9]
• 1883 - First Baptist Church, 30 Peirce St, East Greenwich, Rhode Island^[10]
• 1883 - South Baptist Church, 185-187 Ocean St, Providence, Rhode Island^[11]
  • Demolished
• 1884 - Charles Matteson House, 112 Prospect St, Providence, Rhode Island^[12]
• 1886 - Cyrus E. Lapham House, 64 Harrison St, Pawtucket, Rhode Island^[13]
• 1890 - Conant Memorial Church, 135 Center Rd, Dudley, Massachusetts^[14]
• 1893 - Dudley Hill School, Center Rd, Dudley, Massachusetts^[15]
  • Now owned by Nichols College
• 1895 - Aldrich Free Public Library, 299 Main St, Moosup, Connecticut

Wilcox & Congdon, 1895-1899

• 1896 - George M. Snow House, 24 Alumni Ave, Providence, Rhode Island^[16]

C. F. Wilcox, 1899-1905

• 1902 - Narragansett Baptist Church (Old), 20 Ferry Rd, Saunderstown, Rhode Island^[17]
  • Now serves as the local post office^[18]

References

1. Building Age Aug. 1905: 202.
2. Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Rhode Island. 1892.
3. New England Families: Genealogical and Memorial. Ed. William Richard Cutter. Vol. 3. 1914.
4. "Gideon Gardner Congdon". Congdon Chronicle Jan. 1927: 148.
5. Woodward, Wm. McKenzie. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources. 1986.
6. The Providence Directory and Rhode Island Business Directory. 1889.
7. Cady, John Hutchins. The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950. 1957.
8. PPS Records for 61-63 Chapin Avenue. 2007.
9. American Architect and Building News 10 April 1880: 160.
10. American Architect and Building News 7 July 1883: 3.
11. Sanitary Engineer 4 Oct. 1883: 426.
12. Engineering Record 5 Feb. 1885: 217.
13. American Architect and Building News 1886: 243.
14. A Souvineer of the Conant Memorial Church. 1893.
15. "Currier Center". http://hcap.artstor.org/. Council of Independent Colleges. 2006. Web.
16. Olney Street-Alumni Avenue Historic District NRHP Nomination. 1989.
17. Minutes of the Rhode Island Baptist Anniversaries. 1902.
18. Saunderstown Historic District NRHP Nomination. 1985.