Willis Ritchie
Illustration — Willis Ritchie (center} Willis Alexander Ritchie (14 July 1864 – 17 January 1931), also known as W.A.Ritchie, was an architect whose career began in Ohio and Kansas, but reached maturity in Seattle and Spokane, Washington. Ritchie was born in Van Wert, Ohio, before moving to Lima, Ohio, with his family where he would later begin his own practice. He won numerous competitions for county courthouses and other public buildings in the early 1890s, was the first architect to achieve a statewide reputation in Washington.
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Willis Ritchie
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- 1864 · Van Wert.
- Died
- 1931 · Spokane.
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- United States
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- architect
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Illustration — Willis Ritchie (center} Willis Alexander Ritchie (14 July 1864 – 17 January 1931), also known as W.A.Ritchie, was an architect whose career began in Ohio and Kansas, but reached maturity in Seattle and Spokane, Washington. Ritchie was born in Van Wert, Ohio, before moving to Lima, Ohio, with his family where he would later begin his own practice. He won numerous competitions for county courthouses and other public buildings in the early 1890s, was the first architect to achieve a statewide reputation in Washington.
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Born at Van Wert in 1864, died in Spokane in 1931.
Willis Ritchie (1864–1931) was an American architect.
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Willis Ritchie was born in 1864 at Van Wert.
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Willis Ritchie died in 1931 at Spokane.
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- 1.Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. "Willis A. Ritchie: Public Architecture in Washington, 1889-1905." The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 4, 1996, pp. 194–211. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40491657.
- 2.2010a.
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