PCAD - Willcox and Sayward, Architects

Exterior view of the Michel Firmin Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion and the Pay Streak, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Seattle, WA, 1909. From University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Frank H. Nowell Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Photographs. PH Coll 727, Item #AYP571

Exterior view of the Michel Firmin Roast Beef Corporation Pavilion, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Seattle, WA, 1909. From University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Frank H. Nowell Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Photographs. PH Coll 727, Item #AYP567

View of the University of Washington Arboretum Sewer Trestle Overpass, Seattle, 2007; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Joe Mabel

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Francis H. Fassett, William J. Sayward, Walter Ross Baumes Willcox

Active 1908-1914

Willcox and Sayward's practice started in Vermont; a Seattle, WA, office was in operation by 1907; Sayward went back to the East Coast, but the firm's named stayed the same for three more years; This firm operated in Seattle, WA in an office 720 Central Building in 1910; it was a "Patron" of the Seattle Architectural Club in 1910. Sayward subsequetly moved to Georgia in 1915. Willcox moved to Oregon, his home state, c. 1924.

PCAD id: 1738

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Firmin, Michel, Roast Beef Corporation Building, Seattle, WA	1908-1909	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Engineering Department (SED), 8th Place West Retaining Walls, Queen Anne, Seattle, WA	1913-1914	Seattle	WA
University of Vermont, Department of Medicine, Burlington, VT		Burlington	VT
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Washington Park Arboretum, Aqueduct, Seattle, WA	1910	Seattle	WA

Publications

Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 660, 1970. Woodbridge, Sally, Montgomery, Roger, Guide to Architecture in Washington State, 197, 1980. "Contemporary Regional Architecture", Journal of San Diego History, 8: 3, 114-119, 09/1947. Alden, Charles H., "Willcox, Walter R.B., Obituary", Journal of the American Institiute of Architects, 8: 2, 64-66, 8/1947. "Campus Loses Noted Figure: Professor Willcox, Emeritus, Dies", Oregonian, 9, 1947-04-21. Seattle Architectural Club Yearbook 1910, np, 1910. Seattle Architectural Club Yearbook 1910, np, 1910. "Wall, Aqueduct Nominated as Landmarks", Seattle Times, B4, 1975-04-03. Johnston, Norman J., "W.R.B Willcox", Shaping Seattle Architecture, 139-140, 1994.

Willcox and Sayward, Architects (Partnership)

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