George E. Woodward

George Evertson Woodward (1829–1905) was an American architect, publisher, and engineer most active in New York during the 1860s and 1870s. He co-edited The Horticulturist, the monthly periodical made popular by Andrew Jackson Downing. Additionally, Woodward edited and published several architectural pattern books.

Early life Woodward was born in Ithaca, New York, on September 26, 1829 to William Amos and Frances Mary Evertson Woodward. As a young man, he found employment as an engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad.

By the early 1850s, Woodward resided in Brooklyn, New York, where he married Eliza Mortimer, a clergyman's daughter, on October 31, 1854.

Woodward spread the designs of architects George E. Harney, Daniel T. Atwood, Samuel F. Eveleth, Robert Mook, and Frederick S. Copley in his publications. Like himself, most of these men had designed buildings in the Hudson Valley during the 1860s. As book publisher, Woodward oversaw the release of Harney's Stables, Outbuildings and Fences and Eveleth's School-House Architecture in 1870. Both works used the engravers Korff Bros. of New York, hired by Woodward for illustrations in Woodward's National Architect (1869).

Rutherford, New Jersey In 1866, the Woodward family acquired an 1809 house built by Christopher Yureance in Boiling Springs, New Jersey, now the Rutherford area. His interests seem to have shifted by the mid-1870s, as he stepped down from editing The Horticulturist and publishing. Unfortunately most of his architecture no longer stands.

Architectural works Charles F. Park House, Palisades, New York (1862) Lindley M. Ferris House and Gatehouse, Poughkeepsie, New York (1862, demolished) House (unnamed owner), Goshen, New York (1863, demolished), Mead & Woodward Schoolhouse for Alfred Stebbins, Irvington, New York (1863, demolished), Mead & Woodward Thomas H. Stout House, Irvington, New York (1863, demolished), Mead & Woodward Cold Spring Cemetery grounds, Cold Spring, New York (1863), Mead & Woodward Remodeling of Rev. T. G. Wall House, near Englewood, New Jersey (1863, demolished), Mead & Woodward Stable, Westchester or Putnam County (1863, demolished), with Daniel T. Atwood Remodeling of George E. Woodward House, Rutherford, New Jersey (1866) William Ogden House, Park Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey (late 1860s, demolished) L. E. Korff House, Union Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey (late 1860s, demolished) George Dayton House, Riverside Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey (late 1860s, demolished) House, 262 Broadway, Kingston, New York (late 1860s)