John Andrewartha
Early life and education
John Andrewartha was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, the son of William Guy and Sarah Elizabeth Andrewartha. He trained as an engineer in the Royal Navy.Christopher Long, [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fanxd "John Andrewartha"] in Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association 2010).
Career
Andrewartha began working in the United States in 1865, first based in Louisville, Kentucky, and after 1881 in Austin, Texas. In Kentucky his firm won a design contest in 1866 for the Louisville City Hall.David Dominé, [https://books.google.com/books?id=5QV6AAAAQBAJ&dq=John+Andrewartha&pg=PA40 Old Louisville: Exuberant, Elegant, and Alive] (University of Georgia Press 2013): 40. {{ISBN|9780932958297}} The city's Courier-Journal Building was also his design; it burned down in 1979.Elizabeth Fitzpatrick "Penny" Jones, [https://books.google.com/books?id=W7EeBgAAQBAJ&dq=John+Andrewartha&pg=PA45 "Architecture"] in John E. Kleber, Encyclopedia of Louisville (University Press of Kentucky 2015): 45. {{ISBN|9780813149745}} Andrewartha also designed the original entrance lodge, stables, clubhouse, and other structures at Churchill Downs, though they have all since been replaced.Gregory Luhan, Dennis Domer, and David Mohoney, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fai4OHydKKIC&dq=John+Andrewartha&pg=PA257 The Louisville Guide] (Princeton Architectural Press 2004): 257. {{ISBN|9781568984513}}
In 1872, Andrewartha and two others (the contractor and the site foreman) were charged with manslaughter after the fatal collapse of the Pettit Building in Louisville.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6199995/pettit_building_collapse_1872/ "The Louisville Horror"] Nashville Union and American (13 October 1872): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} But in late 1873, he was listed as the architect for the building of the Fourth Kentucky Lunatic Asylum project.[https://books.google.com/books?id=v1JBAQAAMAAJ&dq=Andrewartha+architect+died&pg=PA160 Journal of the Kentucky General Assembly and Senate] (19 January 1876): 160.
Among his varied completed projects in Texas were the Austin City-County Hospital (1884), the first public hospital in Texas; the St. John's Home for Negro Orphans in East Austin (1911), the original Montopolis Bridge over the Colorado River[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6199939/john_andrewartha_and_the_montopolis/ "Specious Pleading of the Bridge Company"] Austin Weekly Statesman (9 May 1889): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} (which was washed away in a 1935 flood), and Austin residences such as the Henry Hirschfeld House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Personal life
Andrewartha married Jemima Louisa Whillier on 11 June 1861 in Alverstoke, Hampshire, England. They had twelve children together; seven of their children lived to adulthood. John was widowed when Jemima died in May 1915 at their home in Austin, Texas;{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22230537/the_austin_american/ |title=The Austin [Texas] American |newspaper=The Austin American |date=16 May 1915 |page=12 }} he died the following year, aged 77 years.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sachome.org/cemeteries/Oakwood%20Bios/oakbiosA.html |title=Save Austin's Cemeteries - Biographies of Oakwood Cemetery Residents |access-date=24 July 2018 |archive-date=25 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033214/https://www.sachome.org/cemeteries/Oakwood%20Bios/oakbiosA.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.sachome.org/cemeteries/Oakwood/Oakwood%20Bios%20A.html |title=Biographies of Oakwood Cemetery Residents |website=Save Austin's Cemeteries |access-date=12 August 2016 |archive-date=1 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401223641/http://www.sachome.org/cemeteries/Oakwood/Oakwood%20Bios%20A.html |url-status=dead }}
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