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William Tinsley (architect)

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public restrooms, for recitation, lecture, library cabinet, apparatus. It will contain also, the astronomical observatory, the working laboratory, apartments suitable to the residence of two families of the faculty, the principal dining hall for the use of Students, and a chapel. All the departments in Science, Literature and Arts and in the professional schools of Medicine and Law will find ample accommodation in the proposed edifice."
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campus. The building was expanded through additions in 1899, 1905 and 1927. The building originally featured a towering dome until 1916 when it burned down. The dome was never replaced. In a report from the University Regents in 1856, the building was described as such: "This building is designed for
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Today the building stands as the iconic centrepiece of the UW-Madison campus and is home to the office of the chancellor of the university, the dean of students and other administrators. The building also does still include a limited number of classrooms as well as two large lecture halls.
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at the age of twenty-one. Following the death of his father in 1825, William took over the company and received several commissions from local landowners: most notably he rebuilt Darling Hill, seat of the Pennefather family. He studied the designs of church architect
112:(1863) in Gambier, Ohio, near Kenyon College. He was also the architect for Grace Episcopal Church in Pomeroy, Ohio, and St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Circleville, Ohio in 1866-1867. His last major work was the 368: 383: 235: 363: 378: 101: 97: 145: 19:(7 February 1804 – 14 June 1885) was an Irish architect who immigrated to the United States in 1851. He and his family settled in 93: 271: 113: 65: 57: 338: 373: 323: 315: 109: 105: 24: 192: 144:
Originally known as Main Hall, Bascom Hall opened in 1859 as the first entirely instructional building on the
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building which he began in the Winter of 1852-53. He completed several other commissions, among them
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before settling in Cincinnati. His first major commission in his adopted country was the original
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in Aurora, Indiana, work for Rockwell, Kenyon (Ascension Hall), and Wabash colleges, as well as
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where Tinsley received commissions to design several prestigious buildings in the
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William, the younger son of Thomas Tinsley and Lucy Brough, was born in
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Victorian architect: the life and work of William Tinsley
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Regents Report of the University of Wisconsin 1856 p. 11.
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Index

Cincinnati
Midwestern United States
Clonmel
County Tipperary
Church of Ireland
Methodism
James Pain
Diocese of Lismore
chapter house
St. John's Cathedral, Cashel
Bolton Library
the Great Famine
Waterford
Liverpool
North Western Christian University
Christ Church Cathedral
River View Cemetery
Ohio Wesleyan University
Christ Church at the Quarry
Ohio State School for the Blind
Columbus
Crown Hill Cemetery
Indianapolis
Bascom Hall sits atop Bascom Hill at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Dictionary of Irish Architects"
"Between a rock and a hard place"
The Irish Times
"Ascension Hall"
"William Tinsley Family Photographs, ca. 1860s-ca. 1947 Collection Guide"

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