William C. Brocklesby (1847-1910) was an American architect practicing in Hartford, Connecticut.
Life and career
William Claiborne Brocklesby was born May 28, 1847, in Hartford, Connecticut.[1] He attended the public schools of Hartford before entering Trinity College, where his father, John Brocklesby, was a professor. After his graduation in 1869, he studied in the office of New York architect Richard Upjohn.[2] In 1878, he established his own practice in Hartford.[3] He practiced alone until 1904, when he established a partnership with H. Hilliard Smith,[4] an employee of several years. Brocklesby & Smith was active until Brocklesby's death in late 1910. The following year, Smith would reorganize the office as Smith & Bassette.
Brocklesby was married in 1876 to Grace Chetwood Stuart, daughter of Isaac William Stuart, a local author and historian.[5]
Legacy
Several of Brocklesby's works have been individually listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, and others contribute to listed historic districts. In addition to his projects in and around Hartford, Brocklesby built extensively on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and on others in Massachusetts.
^Now vacant, at the corner of Linden and County Streets.
References
^"John Brocklesby," in Biographical and Historical Record of the Class of 1835 in Yale College (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers, 1881): 35-38.
^ abc"William C. Brocklesby, A. A. I. A.," Quarterly Bulletin of the American Institute of Architects 11, no. 4 (January 1911): 294.
^ abSociety of the Congregational Church of Great Barrington NRHP Registration Form (1992)
^Paul V. Turner, "The Campus as Palimpsest," in Academy Hill: The Andover Campus, 1778 to the Present, ed. Addison Gallery of American Art (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000): 24.
