Andrew Wilson (architect)

Andrew Oswald Wilson (1866–1950), known professionally as A. Oswald Wilson,[2] was an early-20th-century Western Australian architect.[3] Born and trained as a carpenter in Victoria, he moved first to Perth and then to the Eastern Goldfields (in December 1899[4][5]), where he worked for Murdock McKay Hopkins.[3] He was president of the Mechanics' Literary and Debating Society (also known as the Boulder Literary Society) in Boulder from 1904[6] to 1908,[7][2] as well as active in the Boulder Benevolent Society.[8] One of his best-known buildings is the Boulder town hall for which he submitted designs in 1907.[9] In December 1908[4] he moved back to Perth and practised from Forrest Chambers (at 62 St George’s Terrace).[3]

Andrew Oswald Wilson
Portrait from the Kalgoorlie Western Argus, published for the opening of the Town Hall in 1908.[1]
Born(1866-10-12)October 12, 1866
DiedJune 19, 1950(1950-06-19) (aged 83)
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsBoulder Town Hall

On 17 December 1910, aged 44, he married May Livingstone in Perth,[3] and in 1917 they left Australia for England, where Wilson enlisted in the Army.[3]

Wilson died on 19 June 1950 at St Andrew's Hospital in Melbourne.[3] He was 83.[10]

Buildings

In chronological order.

Boulder (where he was "responsible for most of the more prominent buildings about the Boulder"[5]):

  • St Matthew's Rectory and Church
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union Girls' Home
  • Dr Frank Sawell's residence and surgery (121 Piesse Street)
  • 1908: Boulder Town Hall[11]

Perth:

  • 1908: Boulder Town Hall
  • 1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall
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gollark: There aren't that many alternatives.
gollark: Personally, my suggested climate-change-handling policies:- massively scale up nuclear fission power, it's just great in most ways- invest in better rail infrastructure - maglevs are extremely cool™ and fast™ and could maybe partly replace planes?- electric cars could be rented from a local "pool" for intra-city transport, which would save a lot of cost on batteries- increase grid interconnectivity so renewables might be less spotty- impose taxes on particularly badly polluting things- do research into geoengineering things which can keep the temperature from going up as much- increase standards for reparability; we lose so many resources to randomly throwing stuff away because they're designed with planned obsolecence- a very specific thing related to that bit above there - PoE/other low-voltage power grids in homes, since centralizing all the AC→DC conversion circuitry could improve efficiency, lower costs of end-user devices, and make LED lightbulbs less likely to fail (currently some of them include dirt-cheap PSUs which have all *kinds* of problems)

See also

References
  1. "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. XIII (713). Western Australia. 14 July 1908. p. 19. Retrieved 19 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "LITERARY AND DEBATING". The Evening Star. 11 (3169). Western Australia. 7 July 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Taylor, John J. (July 2013), A. Oswald Wilson (PDF)
  4. "PERSONAL". Evening Star (Boulder, WA : 1898 - 1921). 11 December 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. "Personal". The Evening Star. III (993). Western Australia. 4 July 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Boulder Literary Society". Kalgoorlie Miner. 8 (2800). Western Australia. 14 September 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY". The Evening Star. 10 (2801). Western Australia. 16 April 1907. p. 4 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. "BOULDER BENEVOLENT SUNDAY". The Evening Star. 9 (2579). Western Australia. 27 July 1906. p. 3 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 18 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. WA: National Library of Australia. 20 August 1907. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  10. William Wilson's family (1839 to 2-5-1914), retrieved 15 December 2017
  11. "BOULDER BUDGET". The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919). Kalgoorlie, WA: National Library of Australia. 23 February 1908. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  12. "No title". Western Mail. XXVIII (1, 440). Western Australia. 1 August 1913. p. 31. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. "WEST PERTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH". The West Australian. XXIX (3, 456). Western Australia. 12 May 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.


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