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Charles Ulricson
Charles L. Ulricson (1816, Stockholm, Sweden – 1887, Peoria, Illinois) was a Swedish-born American architect, who practiced in Peoria, Illinois.〔(Photograph of Charles Ulricson ), from Wheaton College.〕 He is best known for designing Old Main (1856–57) – the principal building at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois – now a National Historic Landmark.
==Biography==
The son of Carl Ulricson, architect to the Swedish crown, he graduated from the Royal Institute of Architects in Stockholm.〔. 〕 Following his father's death, he emigrated to the United States in 1835, initially settling in New York City.〔Factor, p.〕 He was employed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis for about four years, where he worked on University Hall (1833–37, demolished 1890) for New York University. Searching for a place to set up his own practice, he traveled through the American South before settling in Peoria, Illinois, about 1844.〔"Ulricson, Charles," ''The History of Peoria County, Illinois'', (Chicago: Johnson & Company, 1880), pp. 697-98.()〕
Ulricson established a successful practice in Peoria, designing and often acting as contractor for commercial buildings and residences.〔"New Buildings," ''A Descriptive Account of the City of Peoria'' (''The Peoria Transcript'' (newspaper), 1859), p. 23.()〕 He designed and built St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1850, demolished 1880s), of which he was a member and later vestryman;〔"St. Paul's Episcopal Church," ''The History of Peoria County, Illinois'', (1880), p. 463.()〕 and a private school, Peoria Academy (1854).〔H. W. Wells, ''The Schools and Teachers of Early Peoria'', (Peoria, IL: Jacquin & Company, 1900), pp. xxii-xxiv.()〕 He designed and built a number of Italianate and Second Empire mansions on Peoria's West Bluff, overlooking the city and the Illinois River.
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