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Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell

Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell (1872–1888) was an architecture firm in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Its principals were Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (1829–1888), Walter Thacher Winslow (1843–1909) and George Homans Wetherell (1854–1930). Most of the firm's work was local to Boston and New England, with a few commissions as far afield as Seattle and Kansas City.

The firm is variously credited. Nathaniel Bradlee had run a thriving solo practice in Boston since 1854. In 1872 Bradlee promoted Winslow to partner, creating Bradlee & Winslow for 12 years. (Bradlee appears to retain solo credit for some projects afterward, for example Danvers State Hospital.) In 1884 Wetherell was also promoted, creating Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell.[2][3]


Bradlee died in 1888. Winslow & Wetherell then formed their partnership as Bradlee's successor firm.[4] Architect Henry Forbes Bigelow (1867-1929) joined the organization around 1898, after which the partnership was credited as Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, then Winslow & Bigelow, and in its last incarnation Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth. Winslow died in 1909 and control of the partnership went to Bigelow.


A number of works by the firm are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]

89-83 Franklin St., Boston, 1873 (Bradlee & Winslow)

Wigglesworth Building

Church Rd., 0.2 mi. SE of jct. with South Rd. and Rte. 1A Rye, NH, 1876 (credited to Winslow and Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]

St. Andrew's By-The-Sea

Boston, 1882 (Bradlee & Winslow)

Bijou Theatre

Tremont St., Boston, 1883 (Bradlee & Winslow)[6]

Chickering Hall

Kansas City, Missouri, 1886 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]

Old New England Building

Portland, Maine, 1888 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)

Union Station

222-224 Saint John Street, Portland, Maine, 1889 (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed, built out in stages through 1916

Maine Central Railroad General Office Building

437 E. Beverly St. Staunton, Virginia, 1890 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]

The Oaks

Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892 (Winslow & Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]

Building at 30–34 Station Street

Boston Block, , Washington, 1896 (razed 1921)

Pioneer Square, Seattle

Banigan Building, , Providence's first skyscraper, 1896 (Winslow & Wetherell)[7]

Providence, Rhode Island

Boston, 1896 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Steinert Hall

Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Boston Hotel Buckminster

Boston, 1897 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Hotel Touraine

Southborough, Massachusetts, 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)

St. Mark's School

Needham, Massachusetts, 1902 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Needham Town Hall Historic District

Boston, 1903 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Compton Building

Boston, 1906 (Winslow & Bigelow)

Boston Edison Electric Illuminating Company building

Antiquitarian Hall, for the , Worcester, Massachusetts, 1910 (Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth)

American Antiquarian Society

Huntington Ave. (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell)[8]

Children's Hospital Boston

mill complex, (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell) Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District, Massachusetts[9]

Baker Chocolate

One or more works in , both sides of Neponset River Boston, MA (Bradlee, Winslow,& Wetherell), NRHP-listed[5]

Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District

One or more works in boundary increase to , roughly: Adams, River, Medway Sts., Millers Lane, Eliot and Adams Sts. Boston, MA (Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell; Winslow & Wetherell; et al.), NRHP-listed[5]

Dorchester-Milton Lower Mills Industrial District

Works include (with attribution):

Wigglesworth Building (1873), Boston

Wigglesworth Building (1873), Boston

Old New England Building (1886), Kansas City, Missouri

Old New England Building (1886), Kansas City, Missouri

Hotel Touraine (1897), Boston

Hotel Touraine (1897), Boston

Antiquitarian Hall (1910), Worcester, Massachusetts

Antiquitarian Hall (1910), Worcester, Massachusetts