Andrew Wilson
Portrait from the Kalgoorlie Western Argus, published for the opening of the Town Hall in 1908.[1]
Born
Andrew Oswald Wilson

(1866-10-12)12 October 1866
Victoria, Australia
Died19 June 1950(1950-06-19) (aged 83)
Melbourne, Australia
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsBoulder Town Hall

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]

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:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. Vol. XIII, no. 713. Western Australia. 14 July 1908. p. 19. Retrieved 19 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. 1 2 "LITERARY AND DEBATING". The Evening Star. Vol. 11, no. 3169. Western Australia. 7 July 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Taylor, John J. (July 2013), A. Oswald Wilson (PDF)
  4. 1 2 "PERSONAL". Evening Star (Boulder, WA : 1898 - 1921). 11 December 1908. p. 3. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Personal". The Evening Star. Vol. III, no. 993. Western Australia. 4 July 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Boulder Literary Society". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 8, no. 2800. Western Australia. 14 September 1904. p. 4. Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY". The Evening Star. Vol. 10, no. 2801. Western Australia. 16 April 1907. p. 4 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 30 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "BOULDER BENEVOLENT SUNDAY". The Evening Star. Vol. 9, no. 2579. Western Australia. 27 July 1906. p. 3 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 18 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "BOULDER TOWN HALL". Kalgoorlie Western Argus. WA: National Library of Australia. 20 August 1907. p. 16. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  10. 1 2 "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 32, 386. Victoria, Australia. 20 June 1950. p. 18. Retrieved 25 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ William Wilson's family (1839 to 2-5-1914), retrieved 15 December 2017
  12. ↑ "LAWN TENNIS". Western Mail. Vol. XIV, no. 683. Western Australia. 27 January 1899. p. 34. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "BOULDER BUDGET". The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919). Kalgoorlie, WA: National Library of Australia. 23 February 1908. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "Untitled". Western Mail. Vol. XXVIII, no. 1, 440. Western Australia. 1 August 1913. p. 31. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ↑ "WEST PERTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH". The West Australian. Vol. XXIX, no. 3, 456. Western Australia. 12 May 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 16 August 2019 – via National Library of Australia.


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