John W. Ross (Iowa architect)
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John Wesley Ross (June 18, 1830 – June 20, 1914) was an architect in Davenport, Iowa.{{cite web|url=http://www.davenportlibrary.com/files/1613/2510/2936/226_w_4th_st.pdf|title=Iowa Site Inventory Form: Davenport City Hall|author=Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs - State Historical Society of Iowa|publisher=Davenport Public Library|access-date=2011-05-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518074656/http://www.davenportlibrary.com/files/1613/2510/2936/226_w_4th_st.pdf|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=dead}} Originally of Westfield, Massachusetts, Ross moved to Davenport in 1874 where he designed several prominent structures. His son, Albert Randolph Ross, was a draughtsman in John W. Ross's office during 1884–7, and became a notable architect in his own right.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CYzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1530 |title=Who's who in America, Volume 4: Albert Randolph Ross|author=John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis|year=1906}} Ross designed several buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Works
His works include:
- Davenport City Hall, 226 W. 4th St. Davenport, Iowa, built in 1895, Richardsonian Romanesque, NRHP-listed for its "association with the history of city government" and for its architecture "as an important, and increasingly rare, expression of the Richardsonian Romanesque style."{{NRISref|version=2009a}}
- Nicholas J. Kuhnen House, 702 Perry St., Davenport, Iowa, Italianate, NRHP-listed for its architecture
- Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 2800 Eastern Ave., Davenport, Iowa, including Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and "English Period Cottage" architecture, NRHP-listed for its architecture
- Hose Station No. 1, 117 Perry Street, Davenport, Iowa, an Italianate structure, NRHP-listed for its association with firefighting in Davenport and for its architecture "as an example of the Late Victorian Italianate in public works construction"{{cite web |url=http://www.qcmemory.org/Default.aspx?PageId=385&nt=207 |author=Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs / State Historical Society of Iowa |title=Iowa Site Inventory Form: Hose Station No. 1 |publisher=Davenport Public Library |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230022043/http://www.qcmemory.org/Default.aspx?PageId=385&nt=207 |archive-date=2010-12-30 }}
- South Side School, 209 S. College Ave., Geneseo, Illinois, built in 1889, a Romanesque structure, NRHP-listed in 1975.
- J. Schricker Mausoleum, Oakdale Memorial Gardens, 2501 Eastern Ave., Davenport, Iowa, built in 1899, a Neoclassical structure, a contributing building in Oakdale Cemetery Historic District, NRHP-listed in 2015.
File:Davenport, Iowa City Hall.jpg| Davenport City Hall
File:Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home.jpg|Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home
File:Oakdale Cemetery J. Schricker Mausoleum.jpg|J. Schricker mausoleum at Oakdale Memorial Gardens
File:Nicholas J. Kuhnen House.jpg|Nicholas J. Kuhnen House
File:Hose Station No. 1 (Davenport, Iowa).jpg|Hose Station No. 1
File:Scott County Courthouse 1886.jpg|Scott County Courthouse (1886-1888)
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Category:People from Davenport, Iowa
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