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Fred Wesley Wentworth (August 3, 1864 – October 5, 1943) was an American architect known for his extensive contributions to the architectural landscape of Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, as well as various residences and theaters across northeastern New Jersey. Wentworth played a pivotal role in reshaping Paterson following a devastating wind-driven fire that destroyed much of the city's central business district in 1902. His architectural portfolio encompassed a diverse range of building types, including institutional, commercial, residential, religious, and healthcare structures, as well as some of the nation's earliest movie theaters designed exclusively for motion pictures. He was recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.




Background and education


Born on August 3, 1864, in Boxborough, Massachusetts, Wentworth was raised in Dover, New Hampshire. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1889 with a degree in architecture. On May 9, 1893, he married Florence Agnes Marie Hurlburt; the couple had no children. Wentworth died on October 5, 1943, and was laid to rest in Pine Hill Cemetery in Dover.




Downtown Paterson



Wentworth's professional career in Paterson spanned from 1888 to 1943. When he first arrived, Paterson was a modest manufacturing town, but it experienced rapid growth, nearly tripling in population during his tenure. As the city expanded, Wentworth designed a wide array of new building types, including a post office, courthouse, movie theaters, parking garages, aeronautics factories, and other commercial buildings. In 1902 a fire devastated most of the center of the city and Wentworth was responsible for much of the rebuilding work needed afterwards.
Throughout his career, Wentworth designed numerous notable buildings, some in collaboration with his draftsman and later partner, Frederick J. Vreeland. Many of his works are located within the Downtown Commercial Historic District.

United States Post Office (1899)
Passaic County Courthouse (1902), supervising architect
Walton Building (1903), 121 Ellison Street
First National Bank Building (1910), Elliison Street
Elbow Building (1913), 242-244 Main Street
Gerstley Building (1913) 160 Main Street
Barnert Hospital (1914) Broadway, demolished
622 Main Street (1920)
Kitay Building (1920s)
Masonic Temple (1923) 385-405 Broadway
Alexander Hamilton Hotel (1925), 39-55 Church Street
Alexander Hamilton Garage, demolished
YM-YWHA Building (1925), Van Houten Street
Fabian Building (1926), 31-51 Church Street
Paterson General Hospital (1926), demolished
YMCA Building (1929) 128 Ward Street
Paterson Evening News Building




Other public buildings



Public School #10, Paterson
Public School #13, Paterson
Passaic County Tuberculosis Sanitarium (1928), aka Preakness Hospital Preakness, abandoned 2009
Passaic County Welfare Home (1936), Haledon and Wayne
Valley View Sanitarium (1927–31), known as the Preakness Building
Nurses Residence, known as Passaic County Juvenile Detention Center
Storage Building
Loomis Sanitarium Library




Religious buildings


Broadway Baptist Church, Paterson
Temple Emanuel (1929), Eastside Park Historic District, Paterson




Movie theaters



Wentworth was commissioned to build the several movie theatres by Jacob Fabian including The Regent which was the first facility built exclusively for the exhibition of moving pictures and other movie palaces. Fabian is recalled in the cinema at City Center Mall, the Fabian 8.

Regent Theater (1914), Downtown Paterson (demolished)
Branford Theater (1920), Four Corners, Newark
Fabian Theater (1925), Downtown, Paterson
Ritz Theatre (1926), Midtown, Elizabeth
Stanley Theater (1928), Journal Square, Jersey City




Residences



Psi Upsilon Fraternity House (1907), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Fred Wesley Wentworth House, Eastside Park Historic District, Paterson
John W. Griggs House, Eastside Park Historic District, Paterson
Hobart Manor (1915 expansion) for Garret Hobart, now part of William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey
Atwood-Blauvelt mansion (1896–97), Oradell, New Jersey
Casque and Gauntlet addition (1923), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Lucius Varney House, Dover, New Hampshire




See also


List of tallest buildings in Paterson
National Register of Historic Places listings in Passaic County, New Jersey




References






External links


Walking tour Downtown Paterson
"Walking Tour of Downtown". Paterson History. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
The recent work of Fred Wesley Wentworth, Architect, Paterson, New Jersey, 1929
Avignone, June (1999), Downtown Paterson, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-6323-7

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