Peter Ellis (architect)

Peter Ellis (architect)

Peter Ellis was a 19th century Liverpool architect.

He designed the revolutionary Oriel Chambers in 1864 at the corner of Water Street and Covent Garden in Liverpool, said by some to be the finest building in Liverpool and one of the most influential buildings of its age.Fact|date=April 2008

Ellis's only other commission was 16 Cook Street, Liverpool, of 1866.

He died of a stomach ulcer on June 6, 1888.

Ellis' buildings influenced the later work of the US architect John Wellborn Root, who lived in Liverpool for a period.Fact|date=April 2008

External links

* http://www.artehistoria.com/tienda/banco/cuadros/12033.htm
* http://www.sjsfiles.btinternet.co.uk/flm030636.htm
* http://www.ar.utexas.edu/courses/glossary/building/oriel.html


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