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Watt designed some buildings himself, but usually used four architects to execute his plans, namely Walter Aston, John Brooke, Harry S. Fairhurst, and William Longworth. [2] In 1898 Watt bought a tannery on Drury Lane, to the north of the town centre, and with Fairhurst, adapted the buildings into a laundry and cottages.
and William Aston A cubital block with a tower surmounted by a green dome. In three storeys; originally with stabling in the ground floor, a caretaker's flat in the centre, and the reading room at the top, accessed by an outside staircase. [15] [16] High Morland and Harding House, Legh Road
Tabley House is an English country house in Tabley Inferior (Nether Tabley), [1] some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the west of the town of Knutsford, Cheshire.The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
Sources Compiled by Gareth Hughes, based on the preliminary list of drawings held in the RIBA Drawings Collection. This is as complete a list as can be achieved, although some works have gone unrecorded because of the loss of most of Clough Williams-Ellis's office papers in a fire in 1951. In addition, a number of drawings in the collection are not from Clough's office and may represent ...
Andrew Carnegie was also his client; the initial 1889 portion of the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the first of Carnegie's 1,679 public libraries in the US to open (1889) and the second to have been commissioned (1887), is Wood's design. It is believed that Wood met Carnegie through William Clark, also a Scottish immigrant. [3]
William H. Wood, American labor union leader, first president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, 1889–1890 William Wood (trade unionist, born 1873) (1873–1956), British trade union leader
Tatton Hall and the Italian Garden. Tatton Park is a historic estate in Cheshire, England, north of the town of Knutsford.It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall; a medieval manor house, Tatton Old Hall; Tatton Park Gardens, a farm and a deer park of 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2).
The American Woolen Company was established in 1899 under the leadership of William M. Wood and his father-in-law Frederick Ayer through the consolidation of eight financially troubled New England woolen mills. At the company's height in the 1920s, it owned and operated 60 woolen mills across New England.