Edmund March Wheelwright (September 14, 1854, Roxbury, Massachusetts – August 15, 1912) was Boston's City Architect from 1891 to 1895. September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ...

Wheelwright was educated at the Roxbury Latin School and graduated from Harvard University in 1876. In June 1887 he married Elizabeth Boott Brooks. The Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645 and located at 101 Saint Theresa Avenue in West Roxbury, Massachusetts since 1927, is the oldest school in continuous operation in North America. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

He was one of Boston's most important architects in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was responsible for Longfellow Bridge over the Back Bay, and for New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, and the Harvard Lampoon building. He and his brother John Tyler Wheelwright were among the founders of the Harvard Lampoon. Taken late on a February 2002 afternoon, the MBTAs Red Line trains crossing at rush hour with the Beacon Hill and the Boston skyline in the distance. ... Aerial view of Back Bay, Boston including the Prudential Center and John Hancock Tower with MIT and Cambridgeport across the Charles River. ... The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra performing in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music. ... The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra performing in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music. ... The Harvard Lampoon building with its characteristic rooftop ibis and its purple and yellow door The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization and publication founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

He also built the Horticultural Hall, which is another central landmark in the city. It adjoins the striking campus of the Christian Science Church at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Huntington Street. It currently houses the Handel and Haydn Society and the library of the Museum of Fine Arts. It stands directly opposite Symphony Hall. The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the proper name of the Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church. ... Massachusetts Avenue is the name shared by several prominent streets in the United States. ... The Handel and Haydn Society is a choral society in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts is widely considered to be one of the two or three finest concert halls in the world, alongside Amsterdams Concertgebouw and Viennas Grosser Musikvereinssaal. ...

He joined the firm McKim, Mead, White; they built the Boston Public Library's main branch, which dominates Copley Square. Several other local works of his may be familiar to Bostonians. The Boston Public Librarys McKim building The Boston Public Library was established in 1848. ... Categories: Stub | Boston ...

Wheelwright was also a member of Wheelwright & Haven (as of 1909), a fellow of the Boston Society of Architects, a fellow and twice director of the American Institute of Architects, a consulting architect for Hartford's Bulkeley Bridge, as well as for Boston's and Cleveland's main art museums. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is the professional organization for architects in the United States. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Buckeley Bridge is located in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... The Cleveland Museum of Art Located in Clevelands University Circle, the Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collection of more than 40,000 objects. ...

Bibliography

Marquis, Albert Nelson (ed.), Who's who in New England, Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1909.