Andrew Wilson (architect)
Australian architect (1866–1950)
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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]
12 October 1866
Andrew Wilson | |
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Portrait from the Kalgoorlie Western Argus, published for the opening of the Town Hall in 1908.[1] | |
| Born | Andrew Oswald Wilson 12 October 1866 Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 19 June 1950 (aged 83) Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | Boulder Town Hall |
On 17 December 1910, aged 44, he married May Livingstone in Perth,[3][10] 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][10] He was 83.[11]
Buildings
In chronological order.
Perth:
- 1899: West Perth Tennis Club (tennis courts at rear of West Perth Presbyterian Church)[12]
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[13]
Perth:
- 1909: George R. Brown's residence (The Avenue, Nedlands)
- 1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall (cnr. Hay and Colin Streets; precursor to the Ross Memorial Church)[14][15]
- 1914: Dunollie, his own residence (36 Congdon St, Swanbourne)
1908: Boulder Town Hall
1913: West Perth Presbyterian Church Hall
