John A. Fox

John A. Fox (1836–1920) was a prominent American architect who was considered the “Father of Stick Style” American architecture.

John Andrews Fox was born in 1836 in Dorchester, Massachusetts to Thomas Bayley Fox, a Unitarian minister. Fox later resided for many years at 25 Trull Street in Dorchester. During the Civil War, Fox served in Companies I and F of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment from 1862 to 1865 and took part in Sherman's "March to the Sea." Fox first joined the civil engineering firm of Garbett & Wood before starting his own independent practice, which existed for over fifty years. Fox was an active member of the Boston Society of Architects and American Institute of Architects. He constructed many private residences in the “Stick Style” in the Boston metropolitan area. He also constructed the Town Hall in Provincetown in 1886, and the Home for Aged Couples in Roxbury. Fox died in 1920 and is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery on Weigelia Path. Many of his papers are located at the Massachusetts Historical Society.[1]

Fox married Josephine Clapp of Boston in 1878.[2]

Architect S. Edwin Tobey worked in Fox's office in the late 1870s before opening his own office in 1880.[3] Curtis W. Bixby was a later associate, and was involved on several of Fox's projects for state institutions.[4]

Architectural works

Notes
  1. 24 Trull was destroyed by fire circa 1980.
  2. Originally built in 1782 for Col. Samuel Swift.
  3. Now the North Central Correctional Institution.

References
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  4. "Curtis W. Bixby, Architect, Dies," Boston Globe, January 9, 1923, 18.
  5. "The New Providence Opera House," Boston Daily Advertiser, December 5, 1871, 1.
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  8. Boston Athenaeum collections
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  12. "Wales House // 1879," buildingsofnewengland.com, Buildings of New England, May 20, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2021.
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  19. Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Daniel Webster at Concord, New Hampshire (Concord: State of New Hampshire: 1886)
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  23. 110th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument - Gettysburg, PA
  24. The Statue Erected by the State of New Hampshire in Honor of General John Stark (Concord: State of New Hampshire: 1890)
  25. "Churchill House and Carriage House." lebanonnhhistory.org. Lebanon Historical Society, n. d. Accessed July 28, 2021.
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  27. "Illustrations," American Architect and Building News 37, no. 864 (July 16, 1892): 43.
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  31. Stacy W. Reaves, A History & Guide to the Monuments of the Chickamauga National Military Park (Charleston: History Press, 2013)
  32. "Proposals," Boston Daily Advertiser, September 4, 1897, 2.
  33. "Illustrations," American Architect and Building News 63, no. 1203 (January 14, 1899): 14-15.
  34. Report of the City Auditor of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston and the County of Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the Financial Year 1901-1902 (Boston: City of Boston, 1902)
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  36. Brickbuilder 2, no. 1 (January 1902)
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  38. Brickbuilder 15, no. 6 (June 1906)
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  41. Colburn Park Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1986)
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