Edward Tuckerman Potter
American architect
Edward Tuckerman Potter (September 25, 1831 – December 21, 1904) was an American architect best known for designing the 1871 Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut . With his half-brother William Appleton Potter , he also designed Nott Memorial Hall (1858–79) at his alma mater, Union College , Schenectady, New York . Both the Mark Twain House and Nott Memorial Hall are National Historic Landmarks .[ 1]
Early life
Nott Memorial Hall , Union College , completed 1879
Mark Twain House , Hartford, Connecticut (1871)
Potter was born in Schenectady, New York on September 25, 1831. He was the son of Bishop Alonzo Potter and, his first wife, Sarah (née Nott) Potter.[ 2]
He graduated from Union College in 1853 and studied architecture under prominent architect Richard M. Upjohn .[ 3]
Career
Buildings designed by Potter that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include:[ 4]
Nott Memorial Hall , Union College , Schenectady, New York , 1858-1879
Library at Armsmear , Hartford, Connecticut , 1861-1862
Additions to the Christ Episcopal Church , Reading, Pennsylvania , early 1860s
St. James Episcopal Church , NE corner of MacArthur and Broadway, Lewistown, Illinois , 1863-1865
Cathedral Church of the Nativity , Bethlehem, Pennsylvania , 1864
St. Paul's Memorial Episcopalian Church and Rectory, 225 St. Paul Avenue, Staten Island , New York, 1866
Church of the Good Shepherd and Parish House , 155 Wyllys Street, Hartford, Connecticut , 1867
St. John's Episcopal Church (East Hartford, Connecticut) , 1160 Main Street, East Hartford, Connecticut , 1867
All Saints Memorial Church , 674 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island , 1869–1872
Mark Twain House , 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, 1871
Church of the Holy Innocents Willow Avenue and 6th Street, Hoboken, New Jersey , 1872
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral , 121 West 12th Street, Davenport, Iowa , 1873
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church , One Hudson Street, Yonkers, New York , 1874. Additions to the façade.
One or more buildings in Downtown Main Street Historic District , East Hartford, Connecticut. Roughly bounded by Main Street, Governor Street, Chapman Place, and Burnside Avenue.
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Personal life
Among Potter's sibling and half-siblings were Howard Potter , a New York City banker; Robert Brown Potter , a General in the American Civil War ;[ 5] Democratic U.S. Representative Clarkson Nott Potter ;[ 6] Henry Codman Potter , the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York ; Eliphalet Nott Potter, who served as President of Union College and Hobart College ; and William Appleton Potter , also an architect who designed the Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey .[ 7] [ 8]
His paternal grandparents were Anna and Joseph Potter, a farmer. His uncle, Horatio Potter , served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York . His maternal grandfather was Eliphalet Nott , the longest serving college president in the United States.[ 2]
Potter was married to Julia Maria Blatchford (1834–1922), the daughter of U.S. Minister to the State of the Church Richard Milford Blatchford and Julian Ann (née Mumford) Blatchford.[ 11] Together, they lived much of their married life abroad in London and Paris and after his retirement, they spent most of their time in Newport, Rhode Island .[ 11] Julia and Edward were the parents of:[ 11]
Julian Potter (1858–1913),[ 12] who married actress Alice Berenice Pixley, the sister of fellow actress Annie Pixley .[ 13]
Ethelinda Potter (1860–1949)
Edward Clarkson Potter (1862–1950), who married Emily Blanche Havemeyer (b. 1865), a daughter of Theodore Havemeyer .[ 8]
Robert Francis Potter (1864–1930)
Richard Milford Blatchford Potter (1869–1901)
Louisa Millicent Potter (b. 1872), who married Earl Sheffield in 1902.[ 14] She later married architect William Adams Delano (1874–1960) in 1907.[ 15]
Julia Selden Potter (b. 1875)
Potter died at his home, 67 West 52nd Street in New York, New York on December 21, 1904.[ 3]
References
^ Austin N. O'Brien (June 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church" . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-12-24 .
^ a b Smith, Henry Townsend (1913). Manual of Westchester County: Past and Present . H. T. Smith. pp. 64–65. Retrieved 9 November 2018 .
^ a b "EDWARD T. POTTER DIES | Brother of Bishop Potter and Noted Church Architect" . The New York Times . 22 December 1904. p. 9. Retrieved 25 January 2019 .
^ "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . March 13, 2009.
^ "CLARKSON N. POTTER'S SUMMER RESIDENCE" (PDF) . The New York Times . March 7, 1882. Retrieved 9 November 2018 .
^ "OBITUARY | CLARKSON N. POTTER" (PDF) . The New York Times . January 24, 1882. Retrieved 9 November 2018 .
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Potter, Henry Codman ". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ a b Kiger, Phebe Brooks (1976). The Genealogy and History of the Brooks and related families . Kiger. p. 36. Retrieved 9 November 2018 .
^ a b c "EDWARD T. POTTER DEAD | Brother of the Bishop and an Architect and Musician of Note" . The Sun . 22 December 1904. p. 3. Retrieved 25 January 2019 .
^ "Julian Potter Dead" (PDF) . The New York Times . August 14, 1913. Retrieved 23 January 2019 .
^ "THE MARRIAGE OF JULIAN POTTER His Bride, Alice Bernise Pixley, May Return to the Stage" (PDF) . The New York Times . December 11, 1894. Retrieved 23 January 2019 .
^ "SHEFFIELD-POTTER WEDDING. First Society Function of Its Kind of the Newport Season Largely Attended" (PDF) . The New York Times . April 20, 1902. Retrieved 25 January 2019 .
^ Winburn, La Moitte-teunissonjay Te (10 September 1939). "Miss Dorothea Frances Lehmann Engaged To Marry William Richard Potter Delano; Granddaughter of Mrs. Charles S. Guthrie and Alumna Of Foxhollow to Be Wed in October Ferguson--Lennig" . The New York Times .
Works cited
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe (1871). Memoirs of the Life and Services of the Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D., LL.D.,: Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania . J.B. Lippincott Company. Retrieved 2017-02-27 .
Stevens, William Bacon (1866). A Discourse Commemorative of the Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D., LL. D.: Late Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania : Delivered Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, October 19th, 1865 . McCalla & Stavely, Printers. Retrieved 2017-02-27 .
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