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263:, writing in 1972, claimed the opposite for Wells—that he rejected eclecticism and embraced the use of precedent (Hitchcock called it "direct inspiration"). He saw Wells's design for the Villard Houses not only as a harbinger of the shift to the classical and symmetrical, but also as part of a broader transition from European to American leadership in architectural design, writing that "a change in American architecture came...in the early eighties with the designing and building of the Villard houses in New York." According to Hitchcock, "the rejection of the English High Victorian and even of Shavian-manorial irregularity and picturesqueness is here at its extreme even at the very beginning. It was, moreover, almost immediately reflected in the planning of 's H.A.C. Taylor house in Newport, a year or two later, in which there was a return to the formal Anglo-Palladian mode of the eighteenth century." Noting that the classical trend came several years later to England, Hitchcock opined that "this was the point where the tide turns, when American leadership, although not yet much followed, was beginning to be recognized abroad." 270:, but attributed White's shift to the classical more to his 1884 European honeymoon, writing, "...White's wedding trip through Europe opened his eyes. Returning, supported by Wells, he began to practice—and preach—Italian Renaissance as a style and a tradition better suited to American needs than any or all phases of Gothic, Romanesque, or...strictly classical architecture." William Mitchell Kendall, who became a partner in the firm in 1906, recalled Wells's role as having been subsidiary to those of the partners: "So far as I know his work was confined to the details of building. In that he was supreme. Nobody before or since has equalled him in the appropriateness and scale of his ornamentation: and this of course gave great character to the buildings he decorated. But the ensemble, and by implication, the kind of decoration, was invariably decided by a member of the firm." 274:
McKim or White, and therefore gave Wells a significant say in the overall design. Years later, Mead wrote of Wells's status as first among equals among the firm's employees during its early days: "In 1879, shortly before the establishment of the firm, Joseph M. Wells came into our office...I suppose he had merely a good high school education, but he was one of the most learned young men in literature and art whom I have ever met, and a most original thinker...in his quiet, almost unsocial, way he immediately made an impression upon all of us, and became our intimate friend and associate, not only in our work but in our daily lives...I recall the times when we four were working together in the bonds of true fellowship."
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work address. In the 1875, 1876, and 1877 directories, Luce has an office at 17 Pemberton Square, and Wells is listed as working at that address; in 1878 Luce has an office at 11 Pemberton Square, and Wells is working at the same address (which in the 1875 and 1876 Directories is Luce's home address).
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Earlier, in 1924, Magonigle made even greater claims for Wells, writing that "there was a moment of great promise in the history of American design when it looked as though the influence of the genius of Joseph Morrill Wells would direct American thought toward a virile and fruitful eclecticism that
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In the 1873 Boston Directory, Wells is absent, presumably living in New York; Luce is a draftsman working at 17 Pembroke, presumably for the architect Gridley Bryant who had offices there. In the 1874 Directory, the firm of Peabody & Stearns has offices at 60 Devonshire, which Wells gave as his
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Nevertheless, there were instances where Wells had greater responsibility for the composition. William R. Mead, a partner more inclined to manage than design, collaborated with Wells on major projects in Kansas City and Omaha for the New York Life Insurance Company, projects that failed to interest
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In 1860, Thomas and Sarah Wells lived at Roxbury with their four children, but by 1870, the family was living in New York City at 9 Horatio Street ("between West 4th and Hudson Streets"), where they remained until about 1873, and where Thomas Wells pursued his many business interests. One of these
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By 1849, the year Thomas Foster Wells married Sarah Morrill, he was in partnership with John Emery Gowen, trading in West India goods and importing liquors and wine. In the 1850s, Wells and Gowen conducted marine salvage operations while selling deep-sea diving gear, doing business as "Wells &
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By 1874, the family was living in a house at 137 Highland Street near Roxbury, from which Thomas Wells commuted to his office at 3 Merchants Row in Boston, where he worked in real estate. In 1880, Thomas and Sarah Wells were living with their daughter Annie at Winchester, Massachusetts, a Boston
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In 1879, Wells joined McKim, Mead & White and remained there until his death in 1890. Notwithstanding his many contributions to the firm's work, he was obscure in life and for a time thereafter (in 1908, the artist Will Low wrote that Wells's "practice was absorbed in that of the firm of
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would lead in its turn toward an architecture we could fairly call our own...but Wells died in the very early nineties...the World's Fair came on and turned our minds toward Greece and Rome, and another Classic revival ensued...and so began the baneful use of precedent..."
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called him "a man of genius unknown to the outer world and, indeed, no more familiar to many of the younger generation in his profession..."). His current reputation as having been an important member of the firm derives in part from the recollections of the architect
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away from the "romantic and picturesque forms" he admired before he entered his classical phase in the mid-1880s. He credited Wells with the design (based on White's preliminary sketches) of the firm's
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Others took a more measured view of Wells's influence. Charles Baldwin, Stanford White's biographer, acknowledged Wells's having introduced the Renaissance to the firm with his facades for the
182:, the ship on which he brought his family in 1723 from England to Boston; and Col. Joseph Foster, a Gloucester merchant active in the West Indies trade, and a notable participant in the 150:(now a part of Boston) on March 1, 1853, the son of Thomas Foster Wells (1822–1903), a shipping merchant and salvager of shipwrecks, and his wife, Sarah Morrill Wells (1828–1897). 1087: 1303: 1111: 889: 190:
was the New York Metal and Chemical Manufacturing Co., incorporated in 1870 by Wells and others to convert scrap tin into iron, using Wells's patented methods.
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Boston City Directory 1848–49, p. 266. Thomas Foster Wells (1822–1903) is sometimes conflated with Thomas Gilman Wells (1822–1848), who was a printer.
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once told him that he had "learned more from than from any other source." Magonigle claimed that it was Wells who "weaned" the architect
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Boston City Directory, (Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co., 1873), p. 958. In 1875, 1876, and 1877, they lived at 141 Highland.
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An Illustrated Biographical Catalogue of the Principals, Teachers, and Students of the West Newton English and Classical School
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suburb, where the father worked as a "trader in stocks," and where for a time he was president of the Granular Metal Co.
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of 1911, Magonigle recalled that McKim had told him that "he had learned more from Joseph Wells than from any other
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Thomas F. Wells, New York, N.Y., "Patent No. 128,001, Apparatus for Removing Tin from Tinners' Waste," granted 1872.
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Henry-Russell Hitchcock, "Foreign Influence in American Painting and Architecture after 1860," in
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Gowen Submarine Armor." According to the writer of his obituary, Wells, in the years before the
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published a drawing signed by Wells, but this may have been a freelance commission.
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Wells's last assignment at McKim, Mead & White was to design the details for
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Hitchcock is referring to the British architect Richard Norman Shaw.
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H. Van Buren Magonigle, "Architectural Plagiarism as A Fine Art,"
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The Shaping of Art and Architecture in Nineteenth-century America
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Beginning in 1865 until about 1869, Joseph Wells attended the
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architects where he was employed," and in 1913, the critic
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from 1875 to 1878. In January 1877, the New York architect
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Joseph Morrill Wells' tombstone after restoration in 2020.
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First Congregational Church Parsonage and Carriage House
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162:(1851–1916), was a professor of mathematics at the 472:, silent film actress; Joseph Wells's first cousin 518: : 3 June 2020), Joseph Merrill Wells, 1890. 166:and the author of numerous textbooks such as the 1912: 316:erected a tombstone in the form of a tall Greek 1088:Saint Mary of the Assumption Church and Rectory 798:(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1931), p. 114. 759:(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1931), p. 215. 248:(1884), and the detailing of the facade of the 843: 829: 305:Wells died of pneumonia on February 2, 1890. 380:The Villard Houses; Life Story of a Landmark 301:A detail of Joseph Morrill Wells' tombstone. 1292:Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co. 308:He was buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in 836: 822: 785:(New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010), p. 291. 620:1880 US Census, Winchester, Massachusetts. 484:, politician, Joseph Wells’s second cousin 378:Mosette Broderick and William C. 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White and Elizabeth White. 394:The Houses of McKim, Mead & White 345:A Chronicle of Friendships, 1873–1900 164:Massachusetts Institute of Technology 98:Thomas Foster Wells and Sarah Morrill 783:Triumvarite: McKim, Mead & White 454:, poets, Joseph Wells's grandparents 415:Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White 679:McKim, Mead & White, Architects 389:(New York: Harper & Row, 1983). 387:McKim, Mead & White, Architects 361:(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929). 329:"Joseph Morrill Wells" (Obituary), 13: 724:, Vol. 6 (September 1924), p. 112. 417:(New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010). 323: 198:Education and architectural career 14: 1952: 1286:Norfolk Couunty Registry of Deeds 1094:John Payson Williston Observatory 584:New York City Directory, 1872-73. 452:Anna Maria Wells and Thomas Wells 333:, Vol XII, No. 7 (February 1890). 168:Elementary Treatise on Logarithms 146:Joseph Morrill Wells was born in 1936:American neoclassical architects 1921:19th-century American architects 1894: 1346:George Thorndike Angell Memorial 959:Union Church of Northeast Harbor 1418:Unitarian Church of the Messiah 1100:Second Harrison Gray Otis House 801: 788: 775: 762: 749: 736: 727: 722:Michigan Architect and Engineer 714: 697: 684: 671: 661: 648: 636: 623: 614: 605: 596: 445: 382:(New York: Viking Press, 1980). 1701: 1667:First Unitarian Society Church 587: 578: 565: 556: 543: 530: 521: 508: 495: 252:'s New York clubhouse (1891). 1: 1604:Daniel Webster Robinson House 1526:Joseph Horne Department Store 1424:Dr. George Ashe Bronson House 1412:St. Louis School of Fine Arts 1316:Statue of George Frisbie Hoar 856: 488: 1358:Cambridge Memorial Flagstaff 1304:Union Trust Company Building 1046:R. 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Roxbury, Massachusetts
New York, New York
American
Villard Houses
McKim, Mead & White
Italian Renaissance
Donato Bramante
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Samuel Adams
Anna Maria (Foster) Wells
Webster Wells
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Civil War
Battle of Gloucester
West Newton English and Classical School
West Newton, Massachusetts
Peabody & Stearns
Clarence S. Luce
Richard Morris Hunt
Royal Cortissoz
Harold Van Buren Magonigle
Charles McKim
Stanford White
Villard Houses
Century Association
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Villard Houses
Madison Square Garden

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