The County Prison in Lincoln Castle. He applied for American citizenship in 1813, and in 1815, following the death of his first wife, married Sarah Simons. 232-3, "Antram", pg. British Listed Buildingshttp://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-166010-the-vicarage-hibaldstow-#.V0oNoUvG79B, Stamford Mercury - Friday 19 August 1836 pg.3, White's Directory of Lincolnshire, 1856, pp. [1] In 1828 he established himself at Lincoln and he built up an extensive practice in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. [6] Nicholson was to go on to design workhouses at Glanford Brigg in 1836 and at Lincoln in 1837-1838 - both of which have now been demolished. Initially unused, it was eventually converted to state offices. Located on a steep hillside lot at 400 West Camino Alturas, The Santorini House is anything but your average Palm Springs dwelling. Built as premises for the Library over a grocers shop by Mr Collingham. Although he initially appeared in the directories as a civil engineer, by 1853 he had added the professions of architect and surveyor and obtained his first known commission, a teacher’s house for St Chad’s School, in the Cheetham district of Manchester. [5], Possibly Nicholson's most important contribution was in the design of Workhouses. The North Carolina State House burned in 1831 during roof repairs. St. Mark's Station, High Street, Lincoln. [4] His assistant John Spence Hardy and another pupil, Pearson Bellamy set up the practice of Bellamy and Hardy in Lincoln after his death. In 1824 Nicholson married Leonora, the youngest daughter of William Say of Norton Street, London. [5], In 1833, with a letter of recommendation from his friend, Alabama Governor John Gayle, Nichols applied for the post of state architect for Mississippi. Influenced by Thomas Jefferson's plan at the University of Virginia, the campus featured a 70-foot (21 m) wide, 70-foot (21 m) high domed rotunda building that served as the library and nucleus of the campus. [2] Pupils of the practice were Augustus Hullock Morant,[3] a relative of Nicholson's, Charles Baily of Newark and London, and Michael Drury who was Nicholson's successor. However, Nichols and his son, William Nichols, Jr., did contribute to the design of the new North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840 following additional design work by Ithiel Town, Alexander Jackson Davis, and David Paton. The house was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as one of several experimental domed buildings using new materials. The house was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as one of several experimental domed buildings using new materials. [3], Nichols went on to design the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, completed in 1842, and the Lyceum at the University of Mississippi, completed in 1848. More striking is the Corn Exchange of 1847 in the Cornhill Lincoln. The latter seems to have arrived in Manchester about 1844 and also practised as architect, surveyor and civil engineer for most of the same period. Here he has a projecting portico with Corinthian columns at Piano nobile level.[8]. The new range was sparsely detailed but with two massive lateral chimney stacks. He died on December 12, 1853, and was interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington, Mississippi. This building and all but one of Nichols' structures were burned to the ground by the Union Army on April 4, 1865. Cottage on the corner of Sleaford Road, Blankney. William Nicholson was born in County Derry, Ireland in 1830 or 1831 and had emigrated to Manchester by the age of twenty. William Nichols, Sr. (1780 – December 12, 1853) was an English-born architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his early Neoclassical-style buildings in the American South. It was abandoned following the Civil War and eventually demolished. They have similar design characteristics, and while they appear to be by the same architect they have been attributed to either Nicholson or to the Louth architect G. R. Willoughby. In 2007, the house's exterior was changed from off-white to orange. Most such commissions were in Manchester or south Lancashire, although he also designed Roman Catholic churches at Stranorlar, County Donegal (1856) and Glasgow. For over 30 years, William H. Nicholson Associates, P.A. Lincoln Union Workhouse was erected between 1837 and 1838. Little is known about Willoughby, although he was still working in 1868[30] It may be that Willoughby was the supervising architect for these churches and Nicholson had supplied the plans. When they moved out in the early 1960s it was left empty and decaying. Nichols emigrated to North Carolina in 1800, initially settling in the New Bern area. Nichols' Mississippi capitol building was used until 1903, when the state government moved several blocks away to a new capitol designed by Theodore C. Link. [2] The capital of Alabama moved to Montgomery in 1845; the old capitol building became the Alabama Central Female College in 1857. Their only known joint commission was a club and bowling green, at Openshaw for Fairfield and Openshaw Club Limited (1877), probably obtained by John Mottram who lived in the area. [3], While working on the Alabama statehouse, Nichols also designed the original campus for the newly established University of Alabama. Broad Street, Nottingham. The configuration and ornament on the new building reflected his earlier statehouses in North Carolina and Alabama, on a grander scale. This page was last edited on 19 September 2019, at 12:09. The new capitol building was cruciform in plan, the second and third floors resting upon a high rusticated stone basement. [3][4], Old Mississippi State Capitol building in 2010, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "The Burning of the University of Alabama", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Nichols_(architect)&oldid=916541913, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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