Gervase Wheeler

Gervase Wheeler (1815–1889) was a British architect who designed homes in the United States. Wheeler moved to the U.S. in the 1846 or 1847 and stayed until the 1860s, when he returned to London.[1] Wheeler's father, who was also named Gervase, worked as a manufacturer of gold, silver and gilt jewelry in Holborn, then just outside London.[1]

In 1855 he boasted that "the desire to build, to have a home of one's own is implanted in the breast of every American, and I fancy statistics would show that the number of those who own homesteads in this country far exceeds England."[2]

Buildings designed

References

GERVASE WHEELER: MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH ARCHITECT IN AMERICA University of Pennsylvania thesis, 1988
Ryan, Mary P. (1985). The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830–1860. Harrington Park Press. p. 108.

Bibliography

Home for the people, in suburb and country 1855
The choice of a dwelling 1871

Renée Tribert and James F. O’Gorman, Gervase Wheeler: A British Architect in America, 1847–1860 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012).

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[Thesis-1] GERVASE WHEELER: MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH ARCHITECT IN AMERICA University of Pennsylvania thesis, 1988

[2] Ryan, Mary P. (1985). The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830–1860. Harrington Park Press. p. 108.