# Joseph Everett Chandler
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{{short description|American architect (1863–1945)}}
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{{Infobox architect
| name = Joseph Everett Chandler
| image = Joseph Everett Chandler Portrait.png
| birth_date = December 11, 1863
| birth_place = [Plymouth, Massachusetts](/source/Plymouth%2C_Massachusetts)
| death_date = August 19, 1945
| death_place = [Wellesley, Massachusetts](/source/Wellesley%2C_Massachusetts)
| significant_buildings = {{Plainlist|
* [Frederic C. Adams Public Library](/source/Frederic_C._Adams_Public_Library)
* [Wright Memorial Library](/source/Wright_Memorial_Library)
* [Ballou-Newbegin House](/source/Ballou-Newbegin_House)
}}
| significant_projects = {{Plainlist|
* [Pioneer Village](/source/Pioneer_Village_(Salem%2C_Massachusetts))
* [Paul Revere House](/source/Paul_Revere_House) restoration
* [House of the Seven Gables](/source/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](/source/Colonial_Revival_architecture).[{{NRISref|2008a}}]
==Biography==
Joseph Everett Chandler was born in [Plymouth, Massachusetts](/source/Plymouth%2C_Massachusetts), the son of a butcher.[{{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](/source/The_Boston_Globe) |location=Wellesley |page=11 |date=1945-08-20 |access-date=2022-11-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}] He grew up driving carriage-loads of tourists around Plymouth to see its sites.[{{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](/source/Boston_University) |date=2010 |access-date=2022-11-28 |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest| }}}}]
Chandler attended the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) (M.I.T.) and was an apprentice of [McKim, Mead & White](/source/McKim%2C_Mead_%26_White), [Charles Howard Walker](/source/Charles_Howard_Walker), William Pretyman, [Burnham and Root](/source/Burnham_and_Root), and [Rotch & Tilden](/source/Rotch_%26_Tilden).[
==Career==
Chandler is mostly known to have overseen the restoration of the [Paul Revere House](/source/Paul_Revere_House) and the [House of Seven Gables](/source/House_of_Seven_Gables).][{{NRISref|version=2010a}}] He worked with [George Warren Cole](/source/George_Warren_Cole).[{{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 }}][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.]
In 1892 he published ''The Colonial Architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia'' and in 1916 ''The colonial house'' with [R. M. McBride](/source/Robert_M._McBride) & company.[Joseph Everett Chandler. The colonial house, rev. ed. R.M. McBride & company, 1916]
==Works==
* 1898: designed The [Frederic C. Adams Public Library](/source/Frederic_C._Adams_Public_Library), an historic library building at 33 Summer Street in [Kingston, Massachusetts](/source/Kingston%2C_Massachusetts). The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[{{NRISref|2008a}}]
*1898: restored the [Isaac Royall House](/source/Isaac_Royall_House).[{{NRISref|2007a}}]
* 1900s: restored The [Old Farm](/source/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.[{{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}}] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[{{NRISref|2008a}}]
* 1902: restored the [Paul Revere House](/source/Paul_Revere_House).[{{NRISref|2007a}}]
* 1902: designed Red Roof for A. Piatt Andrew (demolished)
* 1907: headed a restoration of Boston's [Old State House](/source/Old_State_House_(Boston)), which was built in 1713.[[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]
* 1909: designed the [Wright Memorial Library](/source/Wright_Memorial_Library). Georgianna Wright (1837–1919) hired Chandler to design a brick library in the colonial revival style.[{{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}}] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2007.[{{NRISref|2008a}}]
* 1909: restored the [Rebecca Nurse Homestead](/source/Rebecca_Nurse_Homestead). Rebecca Nurse Memorial Association (disbanded 1927) hired Chandler to restore the clapboard home to roughly 1636.[{{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}}]
* 1908 to 1910: restored the [House of the Seven Gables](/source/House_of_the_Seven_Gables).[{{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}}]
* 1913: designed Marsh Room, the double-height hall of the [Harvard Musical Association](/source/Harvard_Musical_Association), of which Chandler was a member.
* 1914 to 1918: remodeled two late-Federal period farmhouses to become [The Stevens–Coolidge Place](/source/The_Stevens%E2%80%93Coolidge_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).[Forsyth, Holly Kerr. ''Gardens of Eden: Among the World's Most Beautiful Gardens.'' Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2009, pp. 131–132.]
* 1920: [Hammond House](/source/Hammond_House_(Newton%2C_Massachusetts)) Alteration Original House of Thomas Hammond, owned by William H. Coburn Esquire at time of restoration.
* 1921: restored the [Harlow Old Fort House](/source/Harlow_Old_Fort_House). In 1974 the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[{{NRISref|2008a}}]
* 1933: designed The [Ballou-Newbegin House](/source/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.