John Keys Winchell
Illustration — Thomas P. Kennard House John Keys Winchell (1841 - 1877) was an architect in Chicago who worked on buildings in Nebraska's then newly designated capitol of Lincoln. He designed the state's first insane asylum. He also designed the Thomas P. Kennard House for the state's first secretary of state and Butler Mansion for Nebraska Governor David Butler in Lincoln, Nebraska.
John Keys Winchell
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- John Keys Winchell was born in 1841.
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- John Keys Winchell died in 1877.
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Illustration — Thomas P. Kennard House John Keys Winchell (1841 - 1877) was an architect in Chicago who worked on buildings in Nebraska's then newly designated capitol of Lincoln. He designed the state's first insane asylum. He also designed the Thomas P. Kennard House for the state's first secretary of state and Butler Mansion for Nebraska Governor David Butler in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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The Butler House was used by a Klavern of the KKK before the great depression, was then a clubhouse for a golf course, and was also a radio station and Ideal Grocery before being razed by 1960. Winchell designed houses for all three commissioners who oversaw the relocation of Nebraska's Capitol from Omaha to Lincoln, including the Thomas Kennard house. It is the oldest extant building in the original plat of Lincoln, Nebraska. It was designated the Nebraska Statehood Memorial in 1965. A May 27, 1875 news brief in the Sacramento Daily Union described Winchell as the architect of Nevada's state capitol grounds and building. Other sources credit the Nevada State Capitol to Joseph Gosling, a San Francisco architect.
• Illustration — Kennard and Gillespie houses in 1872 • Thomas P. Kennard House (1869) at 1627 H. Street • Illustration — Original Nye County Courthouse in Belmont, Nevada, closed for renovation, October 2009 • Illustration — Original courthouse in Belmont • John Gillespie (auditor) House (1869) • David Butler House (1869) for Nebraska Governor David Butler • Nebraska Asylum for the Insane (1870), burned down in 1871 • State Prison in Reno, Nevada • Bigelow House Hotel (1871), destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 • Nye County Courthouse (1875)
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1841
John Keys Winchell was born on 1 January 1841.
1877
John Keys Winchell died on 1 January 1877.
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- 1.The Kennard House – Lincoln Today Magazine. 6 June 2018.
- 2.Column, JIM McKEE /. Jim McKee: The many lives of the Butler Mansion. JournalStar.com. 13 April 2014.
- 3.Archived copy.
- 4.team, The Explore Nebraska History. Nebraska Statehood Memorial. Explore Nebraska History.
- 5.Sacramento Daily Union 27 May 1875 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu.
- 6.Nevada State Capitol--Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno and Virginia City--A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. www.nps.gov.
- 7.Legislature, Nevada. Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly . of the Legislature. December 30, 1875.
- 8.Randall, Frank Alfred. History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago. University of Illinois Press. December 30, 1999. 9780252024160.
- 9.Bigelow Hotel. chicagology.com.
- 10.Nye County Courthouse | ONE. www.onlinenevada.org.
- 11.courthousehistory.com | a historical look at out nation's county courthouses through postcards. courthousehistory.com.
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