Whitney, William Channing | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

WHITNEY, William Channing (1851-1945) of Minneapolis, Minn. was credited with the design of one of Winnipeg's most sumptuous privates residences, that for Alex B. Davidson, Ruskin Row, WINNIPEG, MAN., 1913 (Manitoba Free Press [Winnipeg], 28 June 1913, 11, illus. & descrip.; C.H.G., xvi, May 1939, 36, illus.). Constructed in stone 'in the Elizabethan style', the design bears marked similarities to Whitney's plans for the Irvine House, Summit Avenue, Minneapolis, 1910-11, now used as the State Governor's mansion (D. Gebhard, Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota, 1977, 104). Born and educated in Boston he moved to Minnesota in 1875 and is best know there as a designer of lavish, classically styled houses for the elite of Minneapolis area (biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 655; Who Was Who in America 1943-50, 575; biog. in Alan Lathrop, Minnesota Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 2010, 226).