H. Neill Wilson

Harry Neill Wilson
Born	1853/1855 Glendale, Ohio
Died	1926 Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Occupation	Architect

H. (Henry) Neill Wilson (c. 1853/55 in Glendale, Ohio – 1926 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an architect with his father James Keys Wilson in Cincinnati, Ohio; on his own in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and for most of his career in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The buildings he designed include the Rookwood Pottery building in Ohio and several massive summer cottages in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

H. Neill Wilson started his career working for his father, a prominent Cincinnati architect, in 1873. He moved on after seven years and established himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1879 where a building boom was under way.

Wilson moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1885 and did several projects in Berkshire County. He worked in the Northeast until his death in 1926. He was elected as Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in February 1887.

In Ohio, Wilson's Rookwood Pottery building remains, although it was expanded after initial construction, as well as the Glendale Lyceum (ca. 1891) building.

His "splendid" Berkshire, County "cottages" were featured in an illustrated book by Jackson and Gilder. The Shadowbrook residence where Andrew Carnegie also lived and died was particularly massive. It was destroyed by a fire in 1956. It was rebuilt, but the newer structure is not considered up to par with the original.

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