PCAD - Ritchie, Willis, A., Architect

Exterior view of the Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, 2008; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by the Zach Morris Experience

Exterior view of the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, Azay-le-Rideau, France, 2004; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Jean-Christophe Benoist

Exterior view of the Château de Chambord, Chambrod, France, 2012; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Benh Lieu Song

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Theobald Buchinger, Daniel James Patterson, Willis Alexander Ritchie

Active 1883-1924

Ritchie worked as an architect in Ohio, Kansas, Seattle, WA, and Spokane, WA;

PCAD id: 2050

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
1st National Bank and Alexander Building, Winfield, KS	1885-1886	Winfield	KS
Bowman, Mary F., House, Fremont, Seattle, WA	1890	Seattle	WA
Comstock, James A. and Elizabeth, House #2, Cliff/Cannon, Spokane, WA	1909-1910	Spokane	WA
Courts of Washington, Jefferson County Courthouse, Port Townsend, WA	1890-1891	Port Townsend	WA
Courts of Washington, King County, Courthouse #2, First Hill, Seattle, WA	1890-1891	Seattle	WA
Courts of Washington, Spokane County, Courthouse #2, West Central, Spokane, WA	1893-1895	Spokane	WA
Courts of Washington, Thurston County Courthouse #1, Olympia, WA	1891-1892	Olympia	WA
Shadle-Hughes House, Cliff/Cannon, Spokane, WA	1910-1911	Spokane	WA
State of Washington, Capitol Building #2 Project, Olympia, WA	1893	Olympia	WA
Washington Soldier's Home, Orting, WA	1892	Orting	WA

Publications

"Ritchie, Willis, A., Obituary", Architect and Engineer, 05/1931. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 514, 1956. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, Andersen, Dennis Alan, Distant Corner Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson, 260-261, 2003. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, Andersen, Dennis Alan, Distant Corner Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson, 254-260, 2003. Divjak, Helen, "The Bowman House", Images of America: Seattle's Fremont, 47, 2006-01-01. "Bowman House", Northwestern Real Estate and Building Review, 10, 1891-05. "Bowman Residence", Pacific Magazine, 4: 72, 1891-04. "The Washington Soldier's Home", Pacific Magazine, 3: 8, 410, 1891-04. Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl , "Willis A. Ritchie Public Architecture in Washington, 1889-1905", Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 87: 4, 208, Fall 1986. "Bowman House", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 3, 1890-08-31. "Spokane, Washington The Capitol of an Empire", Western Architect, 12: 3, plate, 1908-09.

Links

Spokane Courthouse History