Price, William Lightfoot | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

PRICE, William Lightfoot (1861-1916), a leading architect from Philadelphia, Penn., was credited with the Gothic design for the Methodist Church, Andrew Street, CAMPBELLTON, N.B., 1886 (Daily Sun [Saint John], 21 Oct. 1886, 1, descrip.). He trained under Addison Hutton in 1878-81, then opened an office in Philadelphia in partnership with his brother Frank L. Price. After 1895 he worked under his own name, and was influential in introducing the Arts & Crafts ideas to the professional class in Philadelphia. Price was one of the founders of Rose Valley, an arts and crafts community established in 1901, and later designed many of private residences located there. He died in Philadephia on 14 October 1916 (biog. and list of works in Sandra Tatman, Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects 1700-1930, 1985, 629-33; biog. MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, iii, 476; H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 489)