Andrew Wilson (architect)

For other people with the same name, see Andrew Wilson (disambiguation).

Andrew Wilson
Portrait from the Kalgoorlie Western Argus, published for the opening of the Town Hall in 1908.[1]
Born
Andrew Oswald Wilson

(1866-10-12)12 October 1866
Victoria, Australia
Died19 June 1950(1950-06-19) (aged 83)
Melbourne, Australia
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsBoulder Town Hall

Andrew Oswald Wilson (1866–1950), known professionally as A. Oswald Wilson,[2] was an early-20th-century Western Australian architect.[3] Born and trained as a carpenter in Victoria, he moved first to Perth and then to the Eastern Goldfields (in December 1899[4][5]), where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins.[3] He was president of the Mechanics' Literary and Debating Society (also known as the Boulder Literary Society) in Boulder from 1904[6] to 1908,[7][2] as well as active in the Boulder Benevolent Society.[8] One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall for which he submitted designs in 1907.[9] In December 1908,[4] he moved back to Perth and practised from Forrest Chambers (at 62 St George's Terrace).[3]

On 17 December 1910, aged 44, he married May Livingstone in Perth,[3][10] and in 1917 they left Australia for England, where Wilson enlisted in the Army.[3]

Wilson died on 19 June 1950 at St Andrew's Hospital in Melbourne.[3][10] He was 83.[11]

Buildings

In chronological order.

Perth:

  • 1899: West Perth Tennis Club (tennis courts at rear of West Perth Presbyterian Church)[12]

Boulder (where he was "responsible for most of the more prominent buildings about the Boulder"[5]):

  • St Matthew's Rectory and Church
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union Girls' Home
  • Dr Frank Sawell's residence and surgery (121 Piesse Street)
  • 1908: Boulder Town Hall[13]

Perth:

  • 1908: Boulder Town Hall
    1908: Boulder Town Hall
  • 1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall
    1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall

See also

References

  1. ^ "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. Vol. XIII, no. 713. Western Australia. 14 July 1908. p. 19. Retrieved 19 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b "LITERARY AND DEBATING". The Evening Star. Vol. 11, no. 3169. Western Australia. 7 July 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Taylor, John J. (July 2013), A. Oswald Wilson (PDF)
  4. ^ a b "PERSONAL". Evening Star (Boulder, WA : 1898 - 1921). 11 December 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Personal". The Evening Star. Vol. III, no. 993. Western Australia. 4 July 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Boulder Literary Society". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 8, no. 2800. Western Australia. 14 September 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY". The Evening Star. Vol. 10, no. 2801. Western Australia. 16 April 1907. p. 4 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "BOULDER BENEVOLENT SUNDAY". The Evening Star. Vol. 9, no. 2579. Western Australia. 27 July 1906. p. 3 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 18 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. WA: National Library of Australia. 20 August 1907. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  10. ^ a b "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 32, 386. Victoria, Australia. 20 June 1950. p. 18. Retrieved 25 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ William Wilson's family (1839 to 2-5-1914), retrieved 15 December 2017
  12. ^ "LAWN TENNIS". Western Mail. Vol. XIV, no. 683. Western Australia. 27 January 1899. p. 34. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "BOULDER BUDGET". The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919). Kalgoorlie, WA: National Library of Australia. 23 February 1908. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  14. ^ "Untitled". Western Mail. Vol. XXVIII, no. 1, 440. Western Australia. 1 August 1913. p. 31. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "WEST PERTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH". The West Australian. Vol. XXIX, no. 3, 456. Western Australia. 12 May 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.


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