Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee
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Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (June 1, 1829 - December 17, 1888) was a prominent 19th century Boston architect.
Bradlee was born in Boston to Elizabeth Davis and Samuel Bradlee. He married Julia Rebecca Weld on April 17, 1855. Their children were Joseph Williams Bradlee, Caroline Lousia Bradlee, Elizabeth Lydia Bradlee, Eleanor Collamore Bradlee, and Hellen Curtis Bradlee.
Bradlee designed many of the townhouses in Boston's South End, and was President of the Cochituate Water Board. The Bradlee Basin at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Newton, Massachusetts, completed in 1870, was named in his honor.
From 1866 to 1896 his family lived in the Alvah Kittredge House, a Greek Revival mansion (built 1836) at 10 Linwood Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He summered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, in what is now known as the Bradlee-McIntyre House (built 1885), probably the best example of Victorian Cottage Style architecture in Central Florida. In 1885, Henry Herman Westinghouse, younger brother of George Westinghouse, built a nearby house whose plan was a mirror image of the Bradlee-McIntyre House. Westinghouse also had Bradlee design homes of 12 to 15 rooms near Boston Avenue in town.
Bradlee died in Bellows Falls, Vermont, aged 59. His papers are archived in the Boston Athenæum.
[edit] Selected architectural works
- 1853 - First Parish Church, corner of South and Centre Streets, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1855 - William F. Schultz House, 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1861-1862, Phillips School, Boston, Massachusetts. A rare substantial surviving Italianate school building.
- 1869, the Cochituate Standpipe. Modernized Roxbury's water system.
- 1870 - Mount Auburn Reception House, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of only two existing buildings in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Bradlee.
- 1874, Railway Station, North Conway, New Hampshire.
- 1875, commercial building (workshops), 6 East Springfield Street, South End, Boston
- 1874-1877 - Danvers State Hospital, 450 Maple Street, Danvers, Massachusetts. A massive complex designed for the care of the mentally ill.
- 1876 - Boston Young Men's Christian Union, 48 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. An outstanding example of the High Gothic style.
- 1878 - Unitarian Church, Brunswick, Maine.
- 1879 - 542-550 Columbus Avenue, South End, Boston. Single family row houses.
- Late 1870s - Palladio Hall, 60-62 Warren Street, Boston, Massachusetts. An Italian Renaissance-style commercial block designed and owned by Bradlee.
[edit] Published works
- Nathaniel J. Bradlee, History of the Introduction of Pure Water into the City of Boston, with a Description of Its Cochituate Water Works, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868.
