{{short description|American architect (1863–1945)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox architect | name = Joseph Everett Chandler | image = Joseph Everett Chandler Portrait.png | birth_date = December 11, 1863 | birth_place = Plymouth, Massachusetts | death_date = August 19, 1945 | death_place = Wellesley, Massachusetts | significant_buildings = {{Plainlist| * Frederic C. Adams Public Library * Wright Memorial Library * Ballou-Newbegin House }} | significant_projects = {{Plainlist| * Pioneer Village * Paul Revere House restoration * House of the Seven Gables restoration }} }}thumb|House of the Seven Gables
'''Joseph Everett Chandler''' (December 11, 1863 – August 19, 1945) was an American architect. He is considered a major proponent of the Colonial Revival architecture.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>
==Biography== Joseph Everett Chandler was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of a butcher.<ref name=Authority>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113456852/obituary-for-joseph-everett-chandler/ |title=Joseph E. Chandler: Authority on Colonial Architecture Was 82 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |location=Wellesley |page=11 |date=1945-08-20 |access-date=2022-11-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He grew up driving carriage-loads of tourists around Plymouth to see its sites.<ref name="Orwig">{{Cite thesis |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/0fd13503b121bf2138b13d2b6b0b6f93/1?cbl=18750 |first=Timothy T. |last=Orwig |title=Joseph Everett Chandler, Colonial Revival Architecture, and the Origins of Historic Preservation in New England |publisher=Boston University |date=2010 |access-date=2022-11-28 |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Insert ProQuest data here --> }}}}</ref>
Chandler attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and was an apprentice of McKim, Mead & White, Charles Howard Walker, William Pretyman, Burnham and Root, and Rotch & Tilden.<ref name="Orwig" />
He is considered a pioneering designer of queer space.{{Clarify|date=November 2022}} He designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew, which inspired interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper to build his own Beauport next door.<ref name="Orwig" />
He died in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1945.<ref name=Authority/>
==Career== Chandler is mostly known to have overseen the restoration of the Paul Revere House and the House of Seven Gables.<ref name="nris2">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> He worked with George Warren Cole.<ref name="Orwig" />
With George Francis Dow, he conceived Pioneer Village as a means to demonstrate life in 1630.<ref>{{cite web|title=George Francis Dow |url=http://www.escapesnorth.com/trail_lit/trail.php?sec=lit&trail=40 |access-date=February 22, 2011 |author=North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710201202/http://www.escapesnorth.com/trail_lit/trail.php?sec=lit&trail=40 |archive-date=July 10, 2011 }}</ref><ref>Goff, J. '(March 21, 2008) ''[http://www.wickedlocal.com/salem/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1925666157?zc_p=0#axzz2Ie5aa584 A landmark year: Milestones marked for Pioneer Village, the Arbella and more]'' Salem Gazette. p.4.</ref>
In 1892 he published ''The Colonial Architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia'' and in 1916 ''The colonial house'' with R. M. McBride & company.<ref>Joseph Everett Chandler. The colonial house, rev. ed. R.M. McBride & company, 1916</ref>
==Works== * 1898: designed The Frederic C. Adams Public Library, an historic library building at 33 Summer Street in Kingston, Massachusetts. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> *1898: restored the Isaac Royall House.<ref name="nris3">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> * 1900s: restored The Old Farm, an historic First Period house at 9 Maple Street in Wenham, Massachusetts. The restoration job was the subject of an article in a 1921 edition of House Beautiful.<ref name="macris">{{cite web|url=https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=wnh.122|title=NRHP nomination for Old Farm|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|access-date=2014-01-12}}</ref> The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> * 1902: restored the Paul Revere House.<ref name="nris3">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> * 1902: designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew (demolished) * 1907: headed a restoration of Boston's Old State House, which was built in 1713.<ref>[https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/Old%20State%20House%20-%20Study%20Report%20Amended%20175.A_tcm3-45870.pdf Old State House Study Report], p.3 – City of Boston</ref> * 1909: designed the Wright Memorial Library. Georgianna Wright (1837–1919) hired Chandler to design a brick library in the colonial revival style.<ref name=BrowneandForgit20>{{cite book |title=Duxbury...Past & Present |last=Browne |first=Patrick T.J. |author2=Forgit, Norman |year=2009 |publisher=The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc. |isbn=978-0-941859-11-0 |page=20}}</ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2007.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> * 1909: restored the Rebecca Nurse Homestead. Rebecca Nurse Memorial Association (disbanded 1927) hired Chandler to restore the clapboard home to roughly 1636.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lindgren |first=James |date=1995 |title=Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism, and the Remaking of Memory |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=94 |isbn=0-19-509363-1}}</ref> * 1908 to 1910: restored the House of the Seven Gables.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hawthorneinsalem.org/Architecture/HousesinSalem/SevenGablesHistoricSite/Images.html|title=Hawthorne in Salem: Images Related to the Turner-Ingersoll House, aka "The House of the Seven Gables"|author=North Shore Community College|access-date=2006-05-31|archive-date=June 3, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603141341/http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Architecture/HousesinSalem/SevenGablesHistoricSite/Images.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 1913: designed Marsh Room, the double-height hall of the Harvard Musical Association, of which Chandler was a member. * 1914 to 1918: remodeled two late-Federal period farmhouses to become The Stevens–Coolidge Place. Also enhanced the design of the landscape, which eventually included a perennial garden, a kitch{{clarify|date=June 2023|reason=kitchen? kitsch?}} and flower garden, and a rose garden (all in the Colonial Revival style).<ref>Forsyth, Holly Kerr. ''Gardens of Eden: Among the World's Most Beautiful Gardens.'' Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2009, pp. 131–132.</ref> * 1920: Hammond House Alteration Original House of Thomas Hammond, owned by William H. Coburn Esquire at time of restoration. * 1921: restored the Harlow Old Fort House. In 1974 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> * 1933: designed The Ballou-Newbegin House, an historic house on Old Marlborough Road in Dublin, New Hampshire. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.<ref name="nris2"/>
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