AUDSLEY CHRONOLOGY

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1833        William James Audsley, elder brother of G. A. Audsley, is born in Dufftown, Scotland, 21 August.

1838        George Ashdown Audsley is born in Elgin, Scotland, 6 September.

       Birthplace of G. A. Audsley

       15 King Street

       Elgin, Scotland

       Courtesy of Ian Audsley

185?        G. A. Audsley apprentices with A. & W. Reid, architects, Elgin, Scotland.

1856        G. A. Audsley arrives in Liverpool in autumn, and is employed by John Weightman, Liverpool Corporation Surveyor.

1859        W. J. Audsley, architect, is located at 99 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool.

1860        Audsley & Co., architects, and mount and passe-partout manufacturers, are located at 99 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool.  G. A. Audsley lectures Liverpool Architectural & Archaeological Society on "Color As Applied to Ecclesiastical Decoration and the History and Practice of the Art" and "The Art of Illuminating and its Revival and Application in the 19th Century."  Letter from associates and students protesting examination system to be established by Royal Institute of British Architects, written by "Mr. Audsley" read to Liverpool Architectural Society by his brother.

1861        W. J. Audsley and G. A. Audsley publish illuminated version of The Sermon on the Mount.

1862        G. A. Audsley marries Mary McLellan, 11 September.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Audsley.  Courtesy of Judi Burkhardt

Audsley & Co., architects and mount and passe-partout manufacturers, are located at 76 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool.  G. A. Audsley is listed at 76 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool.  W. J. Audsley is listed at 99 Upper Stanhope Street, Liverpool.  G. A. Audsley is partner with John Cunningham in Cunningham & Audsley, Liverpool.

1863        W. & G. Audsley office is located at 5 Cook Street, Liverpool.  W. J. Audsley and G. A. Audsley publish Taste verses Fashionable Colours.  Mary McLellan Audsley, daughter of G. A. Audsley, is born 5 December.

1865        G. A. Audsley and W. J. Audsley publish Handbook of Christian Symbolism and illuminated version of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon.  Maurice Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, is born 8 January.

1866        Welsh Presbyterian Church, Chester is completed.  W. & G. Audsley is unsuccessful in design competition for Manchester Town Hall.  George Catherall Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, is born 2 June.

1867        G. A. Audsley and W. J. Audsley publish Guide to Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting.

1868        Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, Prince's Road, Liverpool, completed 15 March.  W. & G. Audsley publish Floral Decoration of Churches.  G. A. Audsley and W. J. Audsley reside at 15 Berkley Street, Liverpool.  W. & G. Audsley is located at the Law Association Buildings, 13 Harrington Street, W., Liverpool.  Lillian Audsley, daughter of G. A. Audsley, is born 19 May.

1869        "Mr. Audsley" reported "in chair" of Liverpool Architectural and Archaeological Society.

1870        Christ Church, Kensington, Liverpool consecrated.  W. & G. Audsley publish Cottage, Lodge and Villa Architecture.  G. A. Audsley resides at 15 Berkley Street, Liverpool.  W. J. Audsley resides at 17 Berkley Street, Liverpool.

1872        G. A. Audsley lectures the Architectural Association, London, on "Notes on Japanese Art" and compiles catalog of Oriental Exhibition of Liverpool Art Club.  Restoration of Bebington Parish Church, Cheshire, completed in April. Foundation stone of Old Hebrew Synagogue, Prince's Road, Liverpool, laid 27 December.  

1873        Berthold Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, is born 5 October.  Saint Mary's Church, Ellel Grange (near Lancaster), is consecrated on Ascension Day.  Saint Margaret's Church, Anfield, Liverpool, is completed by November.

1874        Mrs. G. A. Audsley exhibits item in goldwork exhibition of Liverpool Art Club, 7 April.

1874        Old Hebrew Synagogue, Prince's Road, Liverpool, is completed in September.

1875        May Audsley, daughter of G. A. Audsley, is born on 11 May.  G. A. Audsley compiles catalog of Japanese Lacquer Exhibition for Liverpool Art Club.

1875        G. A. Audsley becomes non-resident member of Asiatic Society of Japan.  G. A. Audsley and James Lord Bowes publish Keramic Art of Japan and the Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Lacquer of Bowes Collection.

1876        G. A. Audsley and W. J. Audsley are elected Fellows of Royal Institute of British Architects, 12 June.  G. A. Audsley lectures Social Science Congress in Liverpool on "Influence of Decorative Art and Art Workmanship in Household Details."

1877        G. A. Audsley compiles catalog of fan exhibition of Liverpool Art Club.  G. A. Audsley resides at 27 Greenheys Road, S., Prince's Park, Liverpool.  W. J. Audsley resides at 29 Greenheys Road, S., Prince's Park, Liverpool.  West End Synagogue, Bayswater, London, is begun.

1878        Upright piano case designed by W. & G. Audsley with Egyptian ornament and built by W. H. & G. H. Dreaper, Liverpool, displayed at Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris.

1879        West End Synagogue, Bayswater, London, and the Liverpool Racquet Club and Courts are completed.  W. J. Audsley and G. A. Audsley publish Popular Dictionary of Architecture.  W. J. Audsley resides at Croxteth Road, S, Balvenia, Sefton Park.  W. & G. Audsley are located at 14 Cook Street, W., Liverpool.

1881        W. J. Audsley and G. A. Audsley publish Polychrome Decoration of Buildings [French edition entitled, La Pinnture Murale] and Outlines of Ornaments in the Leading Styles.

1882        G. A. Audsley publishes Ornamental Arts of Japan.  Last Liverpool directory listing for G. A. Audsley and W. & G. Audsley.  W. J. Audsley is absent from Liverpool directory.

1883        G. A. Audsley publishes Art of Chromolithography  W. J. Audsley meets Frederick Layton on ship to Europe from America.  Designs for Milwaukee art gallery are begun.

1884        G. A. Audsley resides at Ivy Villa, Devon Nook, Duke's Avenue, Chiswick, Middlesex, near London.

1885        W. J. Audsley reportedly immigrates to the United States.

1885        G. A. Audsley and James Lord Bowes discontinue membership in Asiatic Society of Japan.

1886        G. A. Audsley attends lecture on Japanese architecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects, and proposes customary vote of thanks to speaker.

1888        Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opens 5 April.

1888        Publication of excerpts of Handbook of Christian Symbolism in The Building News begun and continues for several years.

1891        G. A. Audsley publishes Stranger's Handbook to Chester...

1892        W. & G. Audsley offices are located at 35 Broadway, New York City.  G. A. Audsley resides at 200 West 130th Street, New York City.  G. A. Audsley and son Maurice Audsley publish The Practical Decorator.

1894        G. A. Audsley resides at 150 [now 156] Grove Avenue, North Plainfield, New Jersey.  W. J. Audsley resides at 196 West 134th Street, New York City.  G. A. Audsley becomes member of Architectural League of New York, and exhibits model of Bowling Green Offices entrance and facade.  G. A. Audsley publishes "The Basilica and its Adaptation to Modern City Churches," in Architecture & Building (24 November 1894 to 29 June 1895).

1895        G. A. Audsley publishes interior view of proposed Protestant Episcopal Church for Eckington, Washington, D. C., in Architecture & Building with article on brick interiors for churches.  G. A. Audsley lectures New York Architectural League on "Notes on Polychromatic Decoration of Churches," 3 April, with text published in Architecture & Building (20 April to 27 July).

1896        W. & G. Audsley office is located at 55 Broadway, New York City. The Broadway wing of the Bowling Green Offices opens 1 May.

1897        W. & G. Audsley offices are located at 11 Broadway (Bowling Green Offices), New York City.  Maurice Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, resides at 36 Fairview Street, North Plainfield, New Jersey.  Maclain Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, resides at 60 Westervelt Street, North Plainfield, New Jersey.

1898        Saint Mary, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Roman Catholic Parish School, Bayonne, New Jersey, is completed.

1899        Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Chapel, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, is completed.

1900        W. & G. Audsley office is located at 41 Union Square, room 925, New York City.  G. A. Audsley resides at Lowerre [now Yonkers], New York.  G. Catherall Audsley, son of G. A. Audsley, is listed at W. & G. Audsley office for this year and 1901 only.  W. J. Audsley is reported widowed and residing with son Maclain Audsley at 46 Gordon Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

1902        G. A. Audsley and Berthold Audsley reside at 1 Van Sice Avenue, Yonkers, New York.  W. J. Audsley resides at 200 West 84th Street, New York City.

1904        Los Angeles Art Organ Company instrument designed by G. A. Audsley exhibited at World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

1905        W. J. Audsley resides at 201 West 88th Street, New York City.  G. A. Audsley publishes The Art of Organ-Building.

1906        Saint Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is dedicated 16 October.

1907        William J. Audsley dies 23 May at 201 West 88th Street apartment, New York City, at age 77.  Mary Audsley, wife of G. A. Audsley, dies 7 September of kidney disease, at age 67, in Yonkers, New York.  G. A. Audsley, and daughters Lillian and May reside at 54 Cornell Avenue, Yonkers, New York.

1908        May Audsley, daughter of G. A. Audsley, dies of tuberculosis 20 April, at age 30, in Yonkers, New York.

1909        W. & G. Audsley offices are located at 18 West 27th Street, room 1001, New York City.  Last directory listing for G. A. Audsley and Lillian Audsley in Yonkers, New York, appears.  Wirsching organs designed by G. A. Audsley installed at Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church, Hoboken, New Jersey, and Edgar Mills apartment, 131 East 66th Street, New York City.

1910        Last directory listing for W. & G. Audsley office at 18 West 27th Street, New York City, appears.  G. A. Audsley resides at 136 North 14th Street, East Orange, New Jersey, but returns with son Berthold to England in the summer.  He attends a London exhibition of wood turning in October.

1911        G. A. Audsley and Berthold Audsley publish Art of Polychromatic and Decorative Turning.  G. A. Audsley resides at 7 Guilford Place, London, WC, England, and relocates in mid-July to 39 Rotherwick Road, Golder's Green, London, NW, England.  G. A. Audsley prepares a guide book series entitled How to See English Cathedrals.

1912        G. A. Audsley publishes Colour in Dress.

1913        G. A. Audsley publishes Gems of Japanese Art and Handicraft.  G. A. Audsley writes from 24 Kingsley Road, Northampton, England and prepares Cyclopaedia of the Pointed Architecture of Great Britain.

1914        G. A. Audsley is forced to abandon the printing of his books due to the start of World War I, and returns to the United States.

1915        G. A. Audsley resides at 201 North 9th Street, Newark, New Jersey.  Berthold Audsley resides at 352 Summer Avenue, Newark, New Jersey.

1916        G. A. Audsley and Berthold Audsley reside at 201 North 9th Street, Newark, New Jersey.  G. A. Audsley and Berthold Audsley publish Amateur Joinery, and Artistic and Decorative Stencilling.  The second printing of 1911 book on wood turning appears.

1917        Berthold Audsley joins staff of Newark Museum, New Jersey, as modelmaker.  G. A. Audsley serves on a committee for standardization of organ consoles sponsored by the National Association of Organists and the American Guild of Organists.

1919        G. A. Audsley publishes The Organ of the 20th Century.

1920        G. A. Audsley and Berthold Audsley reside at 149 Newark Avenue, Bloomfield, New Jersey.  Berthold Audsley joins Edison Lamp Works as modelmaker.

1921        G. A. Audsley publishes Organ Stops and Their Artistic Registration.

1922        G. A. Audsley publishes Colour Harmony in Dress.  Austin organ, designed by G. A. Audsley, is installed at Bellevue Theatre, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

1923        G. A. and Bethold Audsley visit England in the spring.

1924 G. A. Audsley visits England.

1925        G. A. Audsley dies at home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, 21 June, and is buried in family plot [section 46, lot 12] at Mount Hope Cemetery, Yonkers.  His Temple of Tone is published