Business & IndustryBritish-American1815 – 1889
Gervase Wheeler
Architect and author of influential residential design pattern books
Biography
A 19th-century American architect and writer on architecture who influenced residential design in the United States. He published influential pattern books and treatises on rural and suburban home design.
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Category
Business & Industry
Nationality
British-American
Born
1815
Died
1889
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Gervase
Latin origin
“The English form of the Latin Gervatius, meaning uncertain but possibly Germanic in ultimate origin. Gervase is most famously associated with Saint Gervase, an early Christian martyr, and gained prominence through religious veneration in medieval England. The name carries a scholarly, antiquarian quality befitting its biblical and liturgical heritage.”