BRICKELL, Eli F. (1850-1934), a well-known architect active in Bradford, Pennsylvania and in western New York State. In 1910 he was credited with the design of a large office building in REVELSTOKE, B.C., commissioned by the Dominion Sawmills & Lumber Co. and erected on Victoria Road. This two storey block, nearly 100 ft. long, was described as an example of “….exceedingly imposing decorated Colonial design“, and featured a façade with six large Corinthian columns (Mail-Herald [Revelstoke], 3 Dec. 1910, 1, descrip.)
Brickell was born in England on 29 July 1850 and was brought to the United States as an infant in 1852. By 1880 both he and his brother William S. Brickell had opened an office in Olean, New York as “architects, builders & contractors”. Their partnership, known as the Brickell Brothers, received major commissions for buildings in Olean, and in surrounding towns, over the next 20 years, but after 1900 Eli F. Brickell decided to move across the state border to nearby Bradford, Pennsylvania. He continued to operate an office under his own name in Bradford until 1914 when he returned to Olean, N.Y. and remained active there for the duration of career. He died in Bradford on 20 April 1934 (obituary and biography Bradford Evening Star, 21 April 1934, 2).
E.F. BRICKELL
(works in Canada)
REVELSTOKE, B.C., large office block for Dominion Sawmills & Lumber Co., Victoria Road, 1910-11 (Mail-Herald [Revelstoke], 3 Dec. 1910, 1, descrip.)
(works in the USA)
SIZERVILLE, PENN., a large hotel and mineral spring bath for M.T. McCormick, 1887 (Commercial Acvertiser (Buffalo), 14 Oct. 1887, 4)
OLEAN, N.Y., industrial building [perhaps a power station] for the Olean Electric Light & Power Co., 1887-88 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 15 Dec. 1887, 5)
COSTELLO, PENN., a tract of 12 new houses for A. Costello & Co., 1888 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 17 May 1888, 5)
BRICKELL BROTHERS
SMETHPORT, PENN., Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge, a three storey brick block, 1889 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 12 Sept. 1889, 12)
OLEAN, N.Y., parochial school, Sullivan Street at Sixth Street, 1889-90 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 16 Jan. 1890, 10, descrip.)
ALLEGANY, N.Y., St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic College, a major 4 storey addition, 1890-91 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 21 Aug. 1890, 12, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., commercial block for F.A. Young, Union Street “next to the Van Campen property, 1891 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 12 March 1891, 5, descrip.)
EAST OLEAN, N.Y., People’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Ninth Street, 1892-93 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 20 Sept. 1892, 10 descrip.; 9 June 1893, 5, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., Central School & Academy, Fourth Street at Sullivan Street, 1892 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 15 Nov. 1892, 10, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., large residence for John Coast, South Street at Union Street, 1894 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 20 April 1894, 3, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., Zimmerman Block, State Street at Seventh Street, 1895 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 15 March 1895, 1, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., Riley & Wands Block, Union Street at Sullivan Street, 1895 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 8 March 1895, 5; 15 March 1895, 1, descrip.)
BRADFORD, PENN., Newsbaum Block, 1895 (Olean Weekly Democrat, 17 April 1895, 5)
E.F. BRICKELL
SMETHPORT, PENN., large factory for Backus Novelty Co., 1910 (Olean Evening Times, 10 Dec. 1910, 3, descrip.)
OLEAN, N.Y., The New Gem Theature, First Street at West State Street, for Charles Nickum, 1920 (Olean Evening Herald, 4 Sept. 1920, 9, descrip.)