Wentworth, William Pitt | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

WENTWORTH, William Pitt (1839-1896) was well-known in Boston, Mass. as an ecclesiastical designer and as a progressive hospital planner. Only one work in Canada by him has been located, that of the Protestant Hospital, Park Street, SHERBROOKE, QUE., built 1893 (C.R., iv, 23 Feb. 1893, 1). A native of Bellow's Falls, Vermont he trained in New York City and began practise in Boston in 1870. His works include hospitals at Newton and Lynn, Mass., the Washingtonian Home in Boston, and the State Insane Hospital at Medfield, Mass. He also designed churches in Norfolk, Va., Jamestown, N.Y., Chester, Vermont, and at Watertown, N.Y. Wentworth died in Boston on 12 April 1896 (obit. Evening Transcript [Boston], 13 April 1896, 5; American Architect & Building News [New York], lii, 18 April 1896, 22; biog. in H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 644)