Knowles, Wilbur Stoddard | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

KNOWLES, Wilbur Stoddard (1856-1944) of New York City designed a palatial summer mansion in the Shingle style on Friendly Island, ALEXANDRA BAY, ONT. in 1887 (American Architect & Building News [Boston], xxii, 3 Dec. 1887, 266 and plate illus.). This residence was built for Edward W. Dewey, a wealthy businessman from New York City and a member of the Thousand Islands Yacht Club. Knowles was born at Crosswicks, N.J. on 29 December 1856 and graduated from the School of Architecture at Cornell University in 1884. He maintained an office in New York from 1887 until 1892 when he became a partner in the firm of Thorp & Knowles. After 1898 he practised under his own name there. He died in Orange, N.J. on 11 May 1944 (obit. New York Times, 13 May 1944, 19; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 352)