{{Short description|American architect (1833-1910)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Andrew Jackson Warner | image = Andrew Jackson Warner (1833–1910).png | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1833|03|17}} | birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut | death_date = {{Death date and age|1910|09|04|1833|03|17}} | death_place = Rochester, New York | burial_place = Mount Hope Cemetery | occupation = Architect | awards = | spouse = {{Marriage|Catherine Pardee Foster|March 22, 1955}} | children = {{Plainlist| * William Amos Warner * John Foster Warner }} | education = | signature = Signature of Andrew Jackson Warner (1833–1910).png | party = }} '''Andrew Jackson Warner''' (March 17, 1833 – September 4, 1910), also known as A. J. Warner, was a prominent architect in Rochester, New York.
==Early life== Warner was born in New Haven, Connecticut on March 17, 1833, a son of Amos Warner Jr. and Adah (née Austin) Warner.<ref name="Society1899"/> His paternal grandfather was Amos Warner, who fought in the American Revolutionary War.<ref name="Society1899">{{cite book |title=Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution |date=1899 |publisher=The Society of the Sons of the American Revolution |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BsYWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA332 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at Guilford Academy in Guilford, Connecticut.<ref name="Maruoka1965">Maruoka, Susanne Keaveney ''The architecture of Andrew Jackson Warner in Rochester, New York'', University of Rochester Dept. of Fine Arts, 1965.</ref>
==Career== [[File:Powers Building - Rochester, New York.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Powers Building, 1869]] [[File:Old County Hall, Buffalo,NY.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Erie County and Buffalo City Hall, 1871]] In 1847, he came to Rochester as an apprentice to one of his uncles, Merwin Austin, for whom he worked as a draftsman.<ref name="Tribert2012">{{cite book |last1=Tribert |first1=Renée |last2=O’Gorman |first2=James F. |title=Gervase Wheeler: A British Architect in America, 1847–1860 |date=2012 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-7146-5 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faonrQ14AoMC&dq=Merwin+Austin+Warner&pg=PA108 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He was soon made a partner in his uncle's business, which as Austin & Warner existed from about 1855 to 1858.<ref name="O’Gorman2012">{{cite book |last1=O’Gorman |first1=James F. |title=Henry Austin: In Every Variety of Architectural Style |date=2012 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-6969-1 |page=196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1pSU4VTVrHYC&dq=Merwin+Austin+Warner&pg=PA196 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Warner then established an independent practice until 1867 when he partnered with Charles Coots under the firm name of Andrew J. Warner & Co.<ref name="State1870">{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the State Agricultural and Industrial School, Industry, N.Y. |date=1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mI8qAAAAMAAJ&dq=Charles+Coots+Warner&pg=RA6-PA17 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref> After this he had an independent practice, then from 1875 to 1877 partnered with James Goold Cutler (1848-1927) in a firm known as Warner & Cutler.<ref name="Kowsky1981">Kowsky, Francis R., ''Buffalo architecture: a guide'', MIT Press, 1981, pages 64–65. {{ISBN|978-0-262-52063-8}}.</ref><ref name="Peck1884">{{cite book |last1=Peck |first1=William Farley |title=Semi-centennial History of the City of Rochester: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers |date=1884 |publisher=D. Mason & Company |page=525 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tUwAQAAMAAJ&dq=Charles+Coots+Warner&pg=PA525 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Warner was married to Catherine Pardee Foster (1834–1921), the daughter of Jonathan Foster and Hulda (née Griffin) Foster, on March 22, 1955. Together, they were the parents of two sons:<ref name="Pierce1899">{{cite book |last1=Pierce |first1=Frederick Clifton |title=Foster Genealogy |date=1899 |publisher=Press o W.B. Conkey Company |page=824 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PolMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA824 |accessdate=22 September 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* William Amos Warner (1855–1917)<ref name="Pierce1899"/> * John Foster Warner (1859–1937), who was also an architect who married Mary Adams (1859–1943).<ref name="rlib">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/Bio.htm |title=Monroe County (NY) Library System - Rochester Images - Biographical Information |access-date=2009-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608182852/http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/Bio.htm |archive-date=2011-06-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4233|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Brick Presbyterian Church Complex|date=September 1991|accessdate=2009-10-01|author=Kathleen LaFrank|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913100512/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=4233|archivedate=2012-09-13}}</ref>
Warner died in Rochester on September 4, 1910, and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.<ref name="Reisem1994">Reisem, Richard O., ''Mt. Hope: America's First Municipal Victorian Cemetery'', Landmark Soc. of Western New York, 1994, page 18. {{ISBN|978-0-9641706-3-6}}.</ref>
==Selected works== * {{Circa|1855}}: Elmwood, Nunda, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.<ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2015-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places|date=2015-03-06|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/23/15 through 2/27/15|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> * 1860: Brick Presbyterian Church Complex, Rochester, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> * 1860s: United Church of Warsaw, located in the Warsaw Downtown Historic District.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny5">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=104194|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Warsaw Downtown Historic District|date=n.d.|accessdate=2013-04-20 |author=unknown|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation}}</ref> * 1863: St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, New York<ref name="nrhpinv_ny"/> * 1864-1868: St. Patrick's Cathedral (as clerk of the works), Rochester, New York<ref name="nrhpinv_ny"/> * 1867: Richardson-Bates House, Oswego, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.<ref name="nris"/> * 1868: Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, Rochester, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.<ref name="nris"/> * 1869: Powers Building, Rochester, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.<ref name="nris"/> * 1870: H. H. Richardson Complex, supervising architect for Henry Hobson Richardson, Buffalo, New York. * 1871: Erie County and Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.<ref name="nris"/> * 1871: First Presbyterian Church (Rochester, New York), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.<ref name="nris"/> * 1873-1875: Rochester City Hall, Rochester, New York * 1883: First Presbyterian Church of Mumford, Mumford, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.<ref name="nris"/> * 1887-1888: Wilder Building, Rochester, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.<ref name="nris"/> * 1888: Ellwanger & Barry Building, (Rochester, New York) * 1891: Saint Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York, Rochester, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.<ref name="nris"/> * 1892: Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall, Auburn, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, designated National Historic Landmark in 2005.<ref name="nris"/> * 1893: Corning City Hall, Corning, New York<ref name="nrhpinv_ny"/> * 1893: Masonic Temple, Olean, New York, located in the Union and State Streets Historic District.<ref name="NysNrhpNom">{{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20190404141934/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-04-04 |title=Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) |publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |format=Searchable database |accessdate=2016-02-01 }} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=315812&q=false |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Union and State Streets Historic District |accessdate=2016-02-01 |author=Susan Gordon Lawson and Jennifer Walkowski |format=PDF |date=December 2014 }}, [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=36774&q=false ''Supplemental information''], and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=315816&q=false ''Accompanying photographs'']</ref> * 1893: Downs Hotel/Hotel Holley, Holley, New York, located in the Holley Village Historic District.<ref name="NysNrhpNom1">{{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20190404141934/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-04-04 |title=Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS) |publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |format=Searchable database |accessdate=2016-02-01 }} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=329255&q=false |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Holley Village Historic District |accessdate=2016-02-01 |author=Katie Eggers Comeau and Jennifer Walkowski |format=PDF |date=June 2015 }} and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=329256&q=false ''Accompanying photographs'']</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080617015844/http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/WarnerIntro.htm Monroe County (NY) Library System - Rochester Images - Warner Introduction] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060908131801/http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kevin.decker/Research%20Information/Warner.htm Andrew Jackson Warner] * [http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Warner/WarnerIntro.htm The Architectural Heritage of the Warners in Rochester, NY] *{{findagrave|23999066}}
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