Wilson Eyre
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Wilson Eyre Jr. was an American architect, teacher and writer who practiced in the Philadelphia area. He is known for his deliberately informal and welcoming country houses, and for being an innovator in the Shingle Style.
A 1901 illustration Eyre
"Farwood", also known as the Richard L. Ashhurst house, in the Overbrook Park section of Philadelphia, (1884–85, demolished)
Mask & Wig Clubhouse, 310 S. Quince St., Philadelphia, PA (1894, altered by Eyre 1901)
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, PA (1895–99), Wilson Eyre, Frank Miles Day, and Cope & Stewardson, architects
Shingle style architecture
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The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the shingle style, English influence was combined with the renewed interest in Colonial American architecture which followed the 1876 celebration of the Centennial. The plain, shingled surfaces of colonial buildings were adopted, and their massing emulated.
"Kragsyde," Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1883–1885, demolished 1929), Peabody and Stearns, architects
William G. Low House, Bristol, Rhode Island (1886–87, demolished 1962), McKim, Mead & White, architects. Now an icon of American architecture, the Low House was relatively obscure at the time of its 1962 demolition.
William Watts Sherman House, Newport, Rhode Island (1875–76), Henry Hobson Richardson, architect
Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island (1879), McKim, Mead & White, architects