Mix, Edward Townsend

MIX, Edward Townsend (1831-1890), of Milwaukee, Wisc. can be credited with the Gothic Revival landmark in STRATFORD, ONT. originally known as the Congregational Church, Waterloo Street, 1873-74 (Stratford Beacon, 27 June 1873, 2; 26 January 1874, 2, descrip. but lacking attribution). The property was sold in 1975 but survives today as The Church Restaurant (Globe & Mail, 10 Sept. 1983, H 14). Mix was born in New Haven, Conn. and articled with Richard Upjohn, a leading figure of the Gothic Revival movement in America. In 1857 Mix opened his own office in Milwaukee and later served as Wisconsin State Architect from 1874 to 1879. His major works there include St. James Anglican Church (1867-68), Olivet Congregational Church (1868-69), the Mitchell Building (1876-78), and the Milwaukee, Chicago & St. Paul Railway Station (1886). From 1882 to 1888 Mix was in partnership with W.A. Holbrook and in 1889 he moved to Minneapolis where his best known work, the Guaranty Loan Tower, was completed in 1890. He died in Minneapolis on 23 Sept. 1890 (obit. Milwaukee Sentinel, 24 Sept. 1890, 1; biog. National Encyclopedia of American Biography, ii, 1892, 233; H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 423-4; American National Biography, xv, 1999, 643-4; J.K. Ochsner & D.A. Andersen, Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson, 2003, 130-32, illus.; biog. in Alan Lathrop, Minnesota Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 2010, 160-62, illus.).