James Andrews (Stonemason)
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| Born | October 10, 1827 New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
| Died | July 6, 1897 (aged 69) Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Resting place | Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh |
| Nationality | Scottish-American |
| Occupation | Stonemason and engineer |
| Known for | Projects with James Buchanan Eads, Heathside Cottage |
James Andrews (October 10, 1827 – July 6, 1897) was a Scottish-American stonemason and engineer who collaborated with civil engineer James Buchanan Eads on such projects as the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, the Mississippi River Jetty, and a proposed railway system across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. His Heathside Cottage in the Fineview neighborhood of Pittsburgh is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He was known for much of his life as "Col. James Andrews," though he never served in the military.
Work
Andrews received no formal education, going immediately into a masonry apprenticeship as a young man. In his early 20s, he won a contract to oversee the masonry work on a new post office in downtown Pittsburgh, which served as the city's main post office from 1853 until 1891.</ref> As his career progressed, he turned his attention to bridges and tunnels. Andrews directed construction of the masonry piers of the Eads Bridge, constructed between 1867 and 1874, and in so doing formed a relationship with James Buchanan Eads. Andrews later served as mason for Eads' James Buchanan Eads#Mississippi River designs, which eased passage by ships through the mouth of the Mississippi River. Andrews and Eads eventually produced designs for a railroad to span the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, proposed as an alternative to the Panama Canal. The railway system was intended to transport entire ships between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
Andrews' also directed for some time the Pittsburgh Steel and Iron Company and the Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Railway Company, which was based in Allegheny City.
Personal Life
James Andrews was born on October 10, 1827 in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and immigrated to the United States from Scotland as a boy. He lived for much of his adult life in the Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the North Side (Pittsburgh) of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He married Irish immigrant Maria Carson in 1849. He commissioned a home for his family on Allegheny's Fineview (Pittsburgh)|Nunnery Hill, Heathside Cottage, between 1864 and 1866, and moved there soon thereafter. The Andrews moved into a much larger estate — Ingleside Place, also on Nunnery Hill — in the early 1880s. (Andrews had the neighborhood's namesake "Nunnery," the old St. Clare's Seminary, demolished to build his new manor.)[1] James Andrews died there on July 6, 1897 of a kidney ailment.</ref> Maria continued to live at Ingleside Place until her death in 1926 at age 98.[2] The estate was left abandoned and later sold by the Andrews' heirs to the Pittsburgh City Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh in 1941.[3]
References
- ↑ "Allegheny News". Pittsburgh Daily Post. 20 April 1881. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ↑ "The Death Roll". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 4 February 1926. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ↑ Hagy, Robert R., Jr. (7 January 1941). "Pittsburgh Housing Project Scheduled Atop Fineview Hill". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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