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Frank Wills (architect)
Frank Wills was a British-born architect who is associated with the design of early Gothic Revival churches in North America.
==Biography==
Frank Wills was born in Exeter, Devon England in 1822, where he started working under John Hayward,〔Architecture of the Old South: Greek Revival & Romantic
Volume 2 of Architecture of the Old South, Van Jones Martin. ISBN 0-88322-034-2, ISBN 978-0-88322-034-4〕 he was a member of the Exeter Architectural Society, and his first known work is a canopied tomb in Gothic style beside the high altar in St. Thomas’ Church in Exeter. In 1842, Wills exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work="Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online" )〕 He emigrated to New Brunswick in 1845 to work on Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton. He modeled it on St. Mary's Church in Snettisham, Norfolk. He moved to New York City and began an architectural firm in late 1847 and married Emily Coster in 1848.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work="Philadelphia Architects and Buildings" )〕 He became associated with the New York Ecclesiology Society and soon was the official architect for that group. In 1850 he published ''Ancient Ecclesiastical Architecture and Its Principles, Applied to the Wants of the Church at the Present Day''.〔 and 〕 Emily died in that same year. In 1851 he took a partner into his firm, Henry Dudley who had also worked under Hayward in Exeter. He remarried to Almy Warne Casey in November 1853, she was the daughter of the Philadelphia iron merchant James Casey. They had one son, Charles James Wills. Frank Wills died suddenly in Montreal in 1857, where he was working on Christ Church Cathedral.〔
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