CDV of Major John Andrews Fox, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Gettysburg

CDV of Major John Andrews Fox, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Gettysburg
Photographed by Whipple
 
A carte-de-visite portrait of John Andrews Fox, taken by the noted Boston photographer Whipple. Fox is remembered both as a Civil War officer and as a pioneering architect later regarded as the “Father of Stick Style” architecture in the United States.
 
Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1835, the son of Rev. Thomas B. Fox and Feroline W. (Pierce) Fox, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in Company I, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry on January 6, 1862. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on August 10, 1862, and appointed Adjutant of the regiment on January 1, 1863. Fox served with the 2nd Massachusetts through the remainder of the war, participating in the regiment’s campaigns including Sherman’s March to the Sea, and was mustered out on July 14, 1865. He declined further promotion.
 
After the war Fox established a long and distinguished architectural practice in Boston. Over a career spanning five decades he designed or supervised numerous significant buildings, among them the old Globe Theatre, the remodeled Boston Museum, the Providence Opera House, Brockton Theatre, Chelsea Academy of Music, Lewiston Opera House, Provincetown Town Hall, and the New England Hospital for Women and Children. He was a member of the Boston Society of Architects and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Fox died in Dorchester at the age of 84.
 
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