William Robert Ware
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William Robert Ware (May 27, 1832 – June 9, 1915), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy, was an American architect,[1] author, and founder of two important American architectural schools.
He received his own professional education at
Swedenborgian High Street Church in Brookline, Massachusetts
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In 1864, Ware partnered with fellow Harvard graduate
Weld Halls, the Episcopal Divinity School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the fountain at the Providence Athenaeum in Providence, Rhode Island, the Walter Hunnewell house (1875) at the Hunnewell estate in Wellesley (then West Needham), and the Ether Monument at the Boston Public Garden.[2] In 1865, Ware became the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee apprenticed under Ware and Van Brunt after graduating MIT in 1869.[3][circular reference
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In 1881, Ware and Van Brunt amicably dissolved their partnership, and Ware moved to New York City to found the
He retired in 1903 in poor health.Ware also dabbled briefly in
voting systems and used the idea of the single transferable vote to devise what is now called, in the U.S., instant-runoff voting, around 1870, used in several English speaking countries.[6]
Publications
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- The American Vignola (1904)
- The Study of Architectural Drawing in the School of Architecture (1896)
- Modern Perspective: A Treatise Upon the Principles and Practice of Plane and Cylindrical Perspective (1882)
References
- ^ "William R. Ware". Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
- ^ "William Robert Ware". MIT Museum. 1996. Archived from the original on April 30, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
- ^ Joseph Lyman Silsbee
- JSTOR 1424350.
- hdl:1721.1/14983.
- ^ "The History of IRV". FairVote archives. Retrieved June 19, 2019.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Robert Ware.
- The Ether Monument at dcMemorials.com
- William R. Ware papers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Works by or about William Robert Ware at Internet Archive
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