Shepard S. Woodcock (1824–1910)[1] was an American architect practicing in Boston, Massachusetts during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Shepard Sawtelle Woodcock | |
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![]() S. S. Woodcock, c.1897 | |
Born | October 6, 1824 Sidney, Maine, US |
Died | March 2, 1910 |
Occupation | Architect |
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Early life and training
editShepard S. Woodcock was born on October 6, 1824, in Sidney, Maine. At the age of seventeen he went to Stow, Massachusetts to serve as an apprentice to a carpenter. After his apprenticeship ended, he moved to Boston, where he carried on the carpentry trade for more than ten years. During this period he studied architecture on his own time.[1]
Professional career
editIn 1854, Woodcock retired from the carpenter's trade and opened an architect's office in Boston.[2] In 1857 he was joined by George F. Meacham,[3] and they had formed a partnership by 1858.[4] The firm of Woodcock & Meacham was dissolved in 1864, when Meacham opened his own office.[5] Woodcock practiced independently for the remainder of his career. By 1888 his reputation was such that he was called as an expert witness in an inquiry into the construction of the High Service Pumping Station at Chestnut Hill.[6] At this time he estimated that he had designed at least 140 churches.[6] Indeed, the bulk of his identifiable projects are churches for Protestant denominations, though he was also responsible for town halls, libraries, schools, office and mercantile buildings, banks, private residences and monuments.
Woodcock was admitted to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1857, and was an active member of the organization until his death.[1] He was elected to fellowship in the Boston Society of Architects in 1867, which became affiliated with the American Institute of Architects in 1870. He resigned from the organization in 1877.[7]
Personal life
editWoodcock was first married to Adeline Ryder, who died in 1850 at the age of 21.[8] In the following year he married Julia Ann Swett,[9] born in 1828 in Wales, Maine. They had at least seven children together, and she died in 1885.[10] At his death he was survived by three daughters.[1]
During the early phase of his career, Woodcock was a resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts.[3] In the early 1860s he relocated to Somerville,[11] where he remained until his death.[1]
In addition to his professional affiliations, Woodcock was also a member of several Masonic and social organizations.[1]
Legacy
editIn addition to Meacham, other notable architects who worked in Woodcock's office include Alfred Stone (1855),[12] John C. Cochrane (1862-1863) and Alberto F. Haynes (1871-1877 and 1883–1884).
At least eight of his works are individually listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, and others contribute to listed historic districts.
Architectural works
editYear | Project | Address | City | State | Notes | Image | Reference |
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1854 | Houses | 20-22 Union Park St | Boston | Massachusetts | [13] | ||
1855 | New Jerusalem Church | 19 Centre Ave | Abington | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [14] | |
1856 | Mercantile building for Parker Fowle & Sons | 350 Washington St | Boston | Massachusetts | Destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. | [15] | |
1857 | House for Clark Swallow | 132 Whitman St | East Bridgewater | Massachusetts | [16] | ||
1857 | Rockingham Bank Building | 15 Pleasant St | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | [17] | ||
1858 | Remodeling of the South Church of Portsmouth | 292 State St | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | NRHP-listed. | [18] | |
1859 | Williams School | 180 Walnut St | Chelsea | Massachusetts | Designed while in partnership with George F. Meacham. Destroyed in the Great Chelsea fire of 1908. | [19][20] | |
1860 | Tremont Street Methodist Church (former) | 720 Tremont St | Boston | Massachusetts | Designed while in partnership with George F. Meacham. Hammatt Billings was consulting architect, and to him the exterior design is attributed. | [21] | |
1864 | Ladd and Whitney Monument | Monument Square | Lowell | Massachusetts | Designed while in partnership with George F. Meacham. | [22] | |
1864 | Perry House | 11 Touro St | Newport | Rhode Island | Designed while in partnership with George F. Meacham. Demolished. | [23] | |
1864[24] | Bank of Cape Ann Building | 154 Main St | Gloucester | Massachusetts | Designed while in partnership with George F. Meacham. Later the Cape Ann National Bank. Demolished. | [25] | |
1865 | E Street Church | 309 E St | Boston | Massachusetts | Later known as Dahlgren Hall after the congregation dissolved. The building has been largely demolished, but the lower level remains as part of the building now on the site. | [26] | |
1865 | State Street Baptist Church | 171 State St | Springfield | Massachusetts | Demolished in 1927. | [27] | |
1866 | First Baptist Church of Cambridge | 5 Magazine St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Burned in 1881. | [28][29] | |
1866 | Lincoln School | 40 College Ave | Somerville | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [30] | |
1866 | Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Building | 1341 Main St | Springfield | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [27] | |
1866 | Remodeling of the North Avenue Congregational Church (former) | 1801 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge | Massachusetts | After the church was relocated, Woodcock was responsible for the addition of transepts. NRHP-listed. | [13] | |
1866 | Soldiers' Monument | Natick Common | Natick | Massachusetts | [13] | ||
1866 | Unitarian Church of Winchendon | 126 Central St | Winchendon | Massachusetts | [31] | ||
1866 | Warren Avenue Baptist Church | 173 W Canton St | Boston | Massachusetts | The church was the base of Thomas W. Piper, a serial killer. Woodcock was called as a witness during Piper's trial in 1876.[32] Demolished in 1968.[33] | [34] | |
1867 | First Orthodox Congregational Church of Somerville | 21 Franklin St | Somerville | Massachusetts | Woodcock was a member of this church for much of his adult life. Demolished. | [35] | |
1867 | Lodge Mausoleum, Mount Auburn Cemetery |
580 Mount Auburn St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Built by Anna Cabot Lodge as the resting place of her family, including her son Henry Cabot Lodge. | [36] | |
1867 | Prescott School | 75 Myrtle St | Somerville | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [37] | |
1867 | Unitarian Church of Ellsworth | 216 Main St | Ellsworth | Maine | Demolished. | [38] | |
1868 | Brookfield Town Hall | 6 Central St | Brookfield | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [39] | |
1868 | Carter School | 10 Forsyth St | Chelsea | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [40] | |
1868 | First Baptist Church of Scituate | 656 Country Way | Scituate | Massachusetts | NRHP-listed. | [41] | |
1868 | Grace Methodist Church | 34 Court St | Keene | New Hampshire | NRHP-listed.[42] | [43] | |
1869 | First Baptist Church of Lebanon | 11 School St | Lebanon | New Hampshire | Burned in 2016. | [44] | |
1869 | Wesleyan Methodist Church of St. Stephen | 70 King St | St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Later the Kirk McColl United Church. Burned. | [45] | |
1870 | Central Fire Station | Highland Ave and Walnut St | Somerville | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [46] | |
1870 | First Church in Malden | 184 Pleasant St | Malden | Massachusetts | Demolished | [47] | |
1870 | Marlborough Town Hall | 140 Main St | Marlborough | Massachusetts | Burned in 1902. | [48] | |
1870 | Methodist Church of Westford | 10 Church St | Graniteville | Massachusetts | NRHP-listed as part of the Graniteville Historic District.[42] | [49] | |
1871 | Edgerly School | 33 Cross St | Somerville | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [50] | |
1872 | Christ Episcopal Church (former) | 10 Henry St | Port Henry | New York | [51] | ||
1872 | First Congregational Church of Litchfield | 21 Torrington Rd | Litchfield | Connecticut | Demolished in 1929. | [52] | |
1872 | Grace Episcopal Church | 104 N Washington St | North Attleborough | Massachusetts | Burned in 1929. | [53] | |
1872 | Holbrook Town Hall | 50 N Franklin St | Holbrook | Massachusetts | Burned in 1878. | [54] | |
1872 | Houses for Adoniram Burrell | 47-53 M St | Boston | Massachusetts | [55] | ||
1872 | Hudson Town Hall | 78 Main St | Hudson | Massachusetts | [56] | ||
1872 | Remodeling of the Kirk Street Congregational Church | Kirk and French Sts | Lowell | Massachusetts | Replacement of the facade and interior renovation. Demolished. | [57] | |
1872 | Trinity Episcopal Church | 47 East St | Wrentham | Massachusetts | [58] | ||
1873 | First Baptist Church of Keene | Court and Vernon Sts | Keene | New Hampshire | Demolished. | [59] | |
1873 | Masonic Building | 117 Merrimack St | Haverhill | Massachusetts | [60] | ||
1873 | North Bennington Congregational Church | 8 Bank St | North Bennington | Vermont | [61] | ||
1874 | Clark's Block | 1-23 Main St | Natick | Massachusetts | [62] | ||
1874 | Bell School | Vinal Ave and Summer St | Somerville | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [63] | |
1874 | Eliot Church | 273 Summer St | Lowell | Massachusetts | [64] | ||
1874 | Masonic Block | 24 Main St | Natick | Massachusetts | [65] | ||
1875 | First Congregational Church of Natick | 2 E Central St | Natick | Massachusetts | [62] | ||
1875 | Howard Seminary | 70 Howard St | West Bridgewater | Massachusetts | Burned in 1949. | [2] | |
1876 | House for Frederick Ayer | 357 Pawtucket St | Lowell | Massachusetts | Later the Franco-American School. | [66] | |
1876 | Keene High School (former) | Winter and Middle Sts | Keene | New Hampshire | Demolished. | [43] | |
1877 | Franklin School | 363 Broad St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [67] | |
1879 | Livery stable for Alfred Papineau | 180 Green St | Jamaica Plain | Massachusetts | [68] | ||
1879 | The Tabernacle | 80 Trinity Park | Oak Bluffs | Massachusetts | [69] | ||
1880 | Mercantile building for A. P. Morse and H. B. Taylor | 215-237 Franklin St | Boston | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [70] | |
1881 | Hunt School | 45 Broad St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [67] | |
1881 | Shedd Free Library | 47 N Main St | Washington | New Hampshire | [71] | ||
1883 | Sanborn Seminary (former) | 178 Main St | Kingston | New Hampshire | NRHP-listed.[42] | [72][43] | |
1885 | Hebronville School (former) | Knight Ave and Webber St | Attleboro | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [73] | |
1885 | South Attleboro School (former) | 437 Newport Ave | Attleboro | Massachusetts | [73] | ||
1885 | St. Philip Episcopal Church | 65 Union St | Easthampton | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [74] | |
1887 | House for Dominick A. Hart | 45 Hunt St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | [75] | ||
1887 | Washington School (former) | 8 School St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | NRHP-listed.[42] | [76] | |
1888 | House for George F. Eames | 57 Mount Vernon St | West Roxbury | Massachusetts | [77] | ||
1888 | House for James P. Fairchild | 41 Maple St | Stoneham | Massachusetts | Identical to the house for Henry A. Hill. | [77][78] | |
1888 | House for Henry A. Hill | 3 Cedar Ave | Stoneham | Massachusetts | Identical to the house for James P. Fairchild. | [77][79] | |
1888 | Rice Public Library | 8 Wentworth St | Kittery | Maine | NRHP-listed.[42] | [38] | |
1888 | School Street School (former) | 100 Webster St | Whitman | Massachusetts | Later known as the Hunt School. Burned in 1983. | [80] | |
1889 | Addition to building for the Reversible Collar Company | 12-14 Arrow St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | Addition of the wing along Arrow Street. NRHP-listed.[42] | [81] | |
1889 | Central Baptist Church | 3 Nickerson Ave | Middleborough | Massachusetts | Demolished in 1963. | [82] | |
1889 | Jefferson School (former) | 200 Middle St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | NRHP-listed.[42] Also a contributing property to the Central Square Historic District. | [83] | |
1890 | Memorial Hall | 1027 Washington St | Abington | Massachusetts | [84] | ||
1890 | Tufts Library (former) | 60 Washington St | Weymouth | Massachusetts | Demolished. | [85] | |
1891 | Horace Mann High School (former) | 150 Emmons St | Franklin | Massachusetts | Demolished in 2016. | [86] | |
1892 | House for Julius W. Tilson | 187 Summer St | Malden | Massachusetts | [87] | ||
1892 | House for Walter H. Wright | 54 Vinal Ave | Somerville | Massachusetts | NRHP-listed. | [87] | |
1893 | House for Frank H. Chamberlain | 25 Pleasant St | Hudson | Massachusetts | [56] | ||
1895 | House for William H. Wentworth | 121 Raymond St | Cambridge | Massachusetts | [88] | ||
1896 | House for Henry E. Wright | 31 Pearl St | Somerville | Massachusetts | [89] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Shepard S. Woodcock," Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association: Proceedings of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Annual Meeting, January 18, 1911, Including Biographical Sketches of Members Deceased During the Year 1910 (Boston: C. M. Barrows Company, 1911): 46-47.
- ^ a b "S. S. Woodcock," Boston and Bostonians (New York: American Publishing and Engraving Company, 1894): 195.
- ^ a b Boston Directory for the Year 1857 (Boston: George Adams, 1857)
- ^ Boston Directory for the Year 1858 (Boston: Adams, Sampson & Company, 1857)
- ^ Boston Post, November 23, 1864, 1.
- ^ a b "Report of Committee on an Investigation of the Freestone Work at the Chestnut-Hill Pumping Station," Documents of the City of Boston for the Year 1888, vol. 3 (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1889)
- ^ H. Langford Warren, "Annual Report of the Boston Chamber A. I. A.," Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects, ed. Alfred Stone (Chicago: Inland Architect Press, 1893): 49-57.
- ^ "Deaths," Boston Atlas, April 22, 1850, 1.
- ^ "Marriages," Boston Atlas, October 9, 1851, 2.
- ^ "Deaths," Boston Daily Globe, July 24, 1885, 13.
- ^ Somerville, Past and Present: An Illustrated Historical Souvenir, ed. Edward A. Samuels and Henry H. Kimball (Boston: Samuels and Kimball, 1897)
- ^ Jean A. Follett, "The Hotel Pelham: A New Building Type for America," American Art Journal 15, no. 4 (Autumn 1983): 58-73.
- ^ a b c Keith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
- ^ "New Church at Abington, Mass.," New Jerusalem Magazine 29, no. 4 (October 1856): 216.
- ^ "Iron Building, Washington St.," Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion (July 19, 1856)
- ^ "EBR.86", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ Richard M. Candee, Building Portsmouth: The Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City (Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Advocates, 1992): 100.
- ^ Richard M. Candee, Building Portsmouth: The Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City (Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Advocates, 1992): 83.
- ^ The Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Chelsea, for 1859 (Chelsea, MA: 1860)
- ^ City of Chelsea: Mayor's Address; Elective Officers for 1861; Fourth Financial Report, for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1860 (Chelsea, MA: Telegraph and Pioneer Press, 1861)
- ^ James F. O'Gorman, "H. and J. E. Billings of Boston: From Classicism to the Picturesque," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42, no. 1 (March 1983): 54-73.
- ^ Frederick W. Coburn, History of Lowell and Its People, vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1920)
- ^ James L. Yarnall, Newport Through its Architecture (Hanover, NH and London: University Press of New England, 2005)
- ^ Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, ed. Benjamin F. Arrington, vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1922): 609.
- ^ James F. O'Gorman, This Other Gloucester: Occasional Papers on the Arts of Cape Ann, Massachusetts (Boston: Thomas Todd Company, 1976)
- ^ "Church Dedication," Boston Daily Advertiser, December 28, 1865, 1.
- ^ a b Springfield City Directory and Business Advertiser, for 1867-68 (Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1867): 30.
- ^ "Laying the Corner Stone of a New Church," Cambridge (MA) Chronicle, September 1, 1866, 2.
- ^ "The New Church Edifice of the First Baptist Society imn Cambridgeport," Cambridge (MA) Chronicle, January 25, 1868, 1.
- ^ Reports of the School Committee, Selectmen, Treasurer, and Collector of Taxes, of the Town of Somerville, for the Year Ending March 1, 1867 (Boston: Amos B. Morss, 1867)
- ^ "Winchendon Unitarian Church", http://www.davidjrusso.com/, Architecture of Charles Brigham, n. d.
- ^ The Official Report of the Trial of Thomas W. Piper for the Murder of Mabel H. Young, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1887)
- ^ Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Boston's South End (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005): 51.
- ^ "Baldwin Place Church, Boston," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 23, 1866, 213.
- ^ "Rev. Lucius R. Eastman Jr., "Somerville and its Churches," Congregational Quarterly 10, no. 3 (July 1868): 241-244.
- ^ "WAT.923", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ Reports of the Town Officers of Somerville, for the Year 1867 (Boston: W. F. Brown & Company, 1867)
- ^ a b Rice Public Library NRHP Registration Form (1979)
- ^ "New Town Hall in Brookfield," Boston Daily Advertiser, December 24, 1868, 1.
- ^ "Chelsea," Boston Daily Advertiser, December 17, 1868, 1.
- ^ First Baptist Church of Scituate NRHP Registration Form (2015)
- ^ a b c d e f g "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c Grace United Methodist Church NRHP Registration Form (1985)
- ^ "Lebanon Baptist Church", https://lebanonnhhistory.org/, Lebanon Historical Society, n. d.
- ^ "Woodcock, Shepard S.", http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, n. d.
- ^ Reports of the Town Officers of Somerville, for the Year 1870 (Boston: W. F. Brown & Company, 1870)
- ^ "Religious Intelligence," Congregationalist (Boston), May 26, 1870, 4.
- ^ "Business in the East," Architectural Review and American Builders Journal 2, no. 2 (May 1870): 674.
- ^ Graniteville Historic District NRHP Registration Form (2002) (available at "NR" link from here)
- ^ Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Somerville (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1997): 77.
- ^ "Stunning 19th Century Episcopal Church", https://circaoldhouses.com/, Circa Old Houses, September 20, 2020.
- ^ Litchfield (CT) Enquirer, February 1, 1872.
- ^ Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1872)
- ^ "Late New England News," Boston Daily Advertiser, July 20, 1872, 1.
- ^ "BOS.7061", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ a b Charles Hudson, Abstract of the History of Hudson, Mass. (Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son, 1877)
- ^ "Improvement on Kirk Street Church," Lowell (MA) Daily Citizen, August 21, 1872, 2.
- ^ "WRE.37", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ "Cheshire County," (Windsor) Vermont Journal, February 22, 1873, 5.
- ^ Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1873)
- ^ Rutland (VT) Daily Globe, August 29, 1873, 3.
- ^ a b "Natick," Boston Daily Globe, April 16, 1875, 8.
- ^ Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Somerville (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1997): 78.
- ^ The Semi-centennial Volume of the Eliot Church, Lowell, Mass., ed. Rev. John M. Greene (Lowell, MA: Vox Populi Press, 1881)
- ^ Daniel Sterner, "Masonic Block, Natick (1874)", http://mass.historicbuildingsct.com/, Historic Buildings of Massachusetts, August 30, 2010.
- ^ "House for F. Ayer, Esq., Lowell, Mass.," American Architect and Building News 1 (June 24, 1876): 205.)
- ^ a b History of Weymouth, Massachusetts, vol. 2 (Weymouth, MA: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923)
- ^ Jamaica Plain: Zoning Committee Resource Notebook (Boston: Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1988)
- ^ Ellen B. Weiss, City in the Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha's Vineyard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
- ^ American Architect and Building News 7, no. 224 (April 10, 1880): 159.
- ^ "Shedd Free Library", https://www.washingtonnh.org/, Town of Washington, n. d.
- ^ Sanborn Seminary NRHP Registration Form (1984)
- ^ a b Annual Reports of the Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer and Collectors, School Committee, Superintendent of Schools and Other Officers of the Town of Attleborough (Attleboro, MA: Perry, Barnes & Company, 1886)
- ^ "Massachusetts," Churchman (December 5, 1885): 620.
- ^ Weymouth (MA) Gazette, October 25, 1887.
- ^ Washington School NRHP Registration Form (1986)
- ^ a b c American Architect and Building News 24, no. 658 (August 4, 1888): xvi.
- ^ "STN.176", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
- ^ "STN.164", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
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- ^ Reversible Collar Company Building NRHP Registration Form (1985)
- ^ Building 10, no. 10 (March 16, 1889): 2.
- ^ Jefferson School NRHP Registration Form (1981)
- ^ "ABI.98", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.
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- ^ Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Franklin, for the Fiscal Year Ending Jan. 31, 1893 (Franklin, MA: Sentinel Publishing Company, 1893)
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- ^ "SMV.304", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d.