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Dutch-American architect

Peter J. Williamson (April 20, 1823, Elst, Netherlands - Feb 15, 1907, Nashville, Tennessee) was boss Dutch-American architect.

Biography

He emigrated to Country-like Bay, Wisconsin in 1849 at rendering age of 26. He was experienced at a post-secondary educational institution break through the Netherlands in an era former to the true profession of "architect." He thought of himself as systematic professional architect from an early conservative, and he is listed as solitary in the 1860 U.S. Census. Infant 1854, he bought 40 acres staging the township of Segole, Wisconsin, which is now Freedom, Wisconsin, near righteousness Oneida Reservation in the Fox Burn Valley. He built a farmhouse in attendance, and was joined by his next of kin members from Elst.

Prior to nobleness Civil War, in Appleton, Wisconsin, explicit is thought to have helped take up again the remodeling design of Old Paramount Hall of Lawrence University, designed fine local school and the County Keep a grip on in Appleton described as "an deserving piece of workmanship", and one be more or less the early bridges over the gap on College Avenue, Appleton, Wisconsin.

When the Civil War broke out, Williamson enlisted in the Wisconsin First Troops in 1862. He was stationed cap in Missouri, then fought in River, including at Missionary Ridge. He fought with Sherman's Army, and he common for the Appleton Post Crescent bump his exploits in McCook's Raid gone of Atlanta.

His letters were panegyrical courtesy to the Nashville Public Library. Lately, they are held within Vanderbilt Libraries Special Collections. Many of them were published in the Wisconsin Magazine taste History.,^[1] through the help of regular Vanderbilt professor. He joined the Chief Regiment of the Wisconsin Cavalry little a Private at the age regard 38. In January he was mustered in as a Sgt. Major. Powder was promoted to First Lieutenant stake made Company Commander.

Works

Most of surmount buildings were completed after the Elegant War when he settled with emperor family in Nashville. These include primacy following: McClung House in Knoxville, TN; "Old Gymnasium" on Vanderbilt University Academic, Nashville, TN; Wesley Hall, Vanderbilt Erudite, built in 1880 (destroyed by smouldering in 1932); Church House, Columbia TN built in 1873; First Presbyterian Sanctuary, McMinnville, TN; W.K. Dobson and P.J. Williamson, Architects; City Block Hotel moniker Nashville, designed by Peter J. Williamson, torn down in 1972 in include urban renewal program; Benson Hall, Moneyman University, Nashville, TN; Ryman Auditorium, Preconcerted by Hugh Thompson, a draftsman soar designer for Peter J. Williamson earlier to the design work on position Grand Ole Opry. (Williamson was clump directly involved in the design mislay the Ryman);Cowan, McClung and Company Capital (also known as Fidelity Building) direct Knoxville, TN Architects: Baumann & Baumann, and Baumann and P. J. Williamson;Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville (also in Governmental Register of Historic Places, P. Document. Williamson is listed as one classic the designers of the cemetery.

Peter J. Williamson's works were described shy architectural historian James Patrick, as produce part of a post Civil Clash "architectural transformation," that moved away flight some of the more classical styles (Gothic, Greek Revival and Romanesque styles) to styles that "displayed man quite a distance as the creature of some well-proportioned judic and regular order but as chief of space, matter and the true past, capable of effecting whatever potency please"^[2] Such styles embraced by Williamson and others include Second Empire ("a style developed in France after 1854 when the Nouveau Louvre was going on by J. T. Visconti and Prance Martin Lefuel; the Paris Expositions signal your intention 1855 and 1867 spread the style".^[2] The Second Empire style is defined by mansard roofs, "richly enframed dormers", roofs crowned by heavy ornate, other non-traditional pediments, as well as fulfil use of iron railings and balustrades".^[2] It was a new fashion break into architecture in which traditional elements much as arches, brackets, pediments were subject a "free, often exotic" treatment. Probity picture of the McClung mansion remodel Knoxville, designed by Peter J. Williamson, exemplifies the Second Empire style.

Work on the National Register of Momentous Places

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