Edward Angell

Edward L. Angell (1847 – 1923) was an American architect who worked in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City.

Life and career Edward Lewis Angell was born March 11, 1847, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Tristram Harris Angell and Caroline Mason (Lewis) Angell. He was educated by private tutors and in architecture in the office of Charles P. Hartshorn. In 1874 he was appointed advisory architect to the committee that had charge of the design and construction of the new Providence City Hall. Following a competition, Angell, along with architect Alpheus C. Morse and builder David Childs, recommended the design of Samuel J. F. Thayer, which was built. Over the next few years Angell designed several schools in Providence and the Grove Street Elementary School in Woonsocket. In 1878 City Hall was finished, and Angell went west, working for a number of architects on public buildings in the Midwest. In 1883 he returned east and established a practice in New York City, where he would remain for the rest of his career. His earliest known commissions were 44 and 46 West 85th Street (1886–87) 241-49 Central Park West (1887–88, altered), 170 West 75th Street (1888–89), 340-48 West End Avenue, 262-68 West 77th Street (both 1889-90), and the Endicott Hotel (1890–91), at Columbus Avenue and 82nd Street. All are extant and located in historic districts on the Upper West Side.