Gervase Wheeler

Gervase Wheeler (1815-1889) was a British architect who designed homes in the United States. Wheeler moved to the U.S. in the 1846 or 1847 and stayed until the 1860s, when he returned to London.^[1] Wheeler's father, who was also named Gervase, worked as a manufacturer of gold, silver and gilt jewelry in Holborn, then just outside London.^[1]

Buildings designed

Henry Boody House, Brunswick, Maine

References

1 2 GERVASE WHEELER: MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH ARCHITECT IN AMERICA University of Pennsylvania thesis, 1988

Bibliography

Home for the people, in suburb and country 1855
The choice of a dwelling 1871

Renée Tribert and James F. O’Gorman, Gervase Wheeler: A British Architect in America, 1847–1860 (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012).

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 233412240 ULAN: 500060529

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