Charles Wheelock

Charles Wheelock (December 12, 1833 – September 24, 1910) was an architect in Birmingham, Alabama. His son Hary Burt Wheelock partnered with him to form Wheelock & Wheelock.

Biography

He was born in New Hampshire and schooled in Oneida County, New York where his family moved when he was ten. He became a carpenter and then a contractor. He served in the 117th New York Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War rising to the rank of captain. After the war he moved around and worked in various cities before settling in Birmingham in 1881. He remarried his first wife, Eliza, in February 1909.

He was a member of the masonic fraternity and Knights Templar.

His firm assisted H. Wolters of Louisville on the second Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham built in 1889. It was succeeded in 1929 by an art deco courthouse building, Jefferson County Courthouse (Birmingham, Alabama). S. Scott Joy (Samuel Scott Joy) was a partner at the firm (Wheelock, Joy and Wheelock).

Businessman George F. Wheelock was one of his sons. Marble went on to work in Chicago and Sandusky.

Work Second Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama Cathedral Church of the Advent (Wheelock, Joy, and Wheelock) (1893) Young & Vann Building (1893) Hillman Hospital (1903)

Steiner Bank Building, NRHP listed Business block on First Avenue W. M. Burgin's music and art building on Fifth Avenue Bibb County Banking and Trust in Centreville, Alabama

Later works of the firm Forbes Piano Company at 1914 Fourth (1913), Harry B. Wheelock Hood-McPherson Furniture Building, now the Auburn University Provost Office (1914) (Harry Wheelock) Molton Apartments (1913)