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'''Samuel Scott Joy''' (died [[1942]]) was an architect active in [[Birmingham]] in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in Deleware, Ohio, the son of attorney [[Frederick Merrick Joy]] and [[Hattie Hitchcock Joy Browne|Hattie Hitchcock]]. He and his brothers [[Tom Joy|Tom]] and [[Todd Joy|Todd]], who were both engineers, moved to Birmingham with their parents in the late 19th century.
'''Samuel<!--or Stephen--> Scott Joy''' (born [[1875]] in Delaware, Ohio; died [[1942]]<!--or 1946--> in Orlando, Florida<!--or Chicago-->) was a civil engineer and architect active in [[Birmingham]] in the late 19th and early 20th century.  


Joy found work with the notable firm started by [[Charles Wheelock]] and his son, [[Harry Wheelock|Harry]]. He rose within the firm and, for several years it did business as [[Wheelock, Joy and Wheelock]]. At the same time he designed several houses in [[Forest Park]], mainly for his successful family. His residential designs reveal an influence of Frank Lloyd Wright not present in his more run-of-the-mill institutional buildings.
Joy was the son of attorney [[Frederick Merrick Joy]] and [[Hattie Hitchcock Joy Browne|Hattie Hitchcock]]. His parents his brothers [[Tom Joy|Tom]] and [[Frederick Joy|Frederick ("Tedd")]], who were both engineers, moved to Birmingham with their parents in the early 1900s. He remained to the midwest to study engineering and architecture at the University of Illinois, where he pledged Sigma Chi and graduated [[1901]]. He joined his family in Birmingham before [[1903]] and worked alongside his brothers as a civil engineer for the firm of [[Messrs Joy]]. In [[1906]] he joined the architectural firm of [[Wheelock & Wheelock]], founded in the 1880s by [[Charles Wheelock]] and his son, [[Harry Wheelock|Harry]].


Joy made an attempt to start his own construction firm. He designed and constructed the [[20th Street YMCA]] (on the site of the current [[AmSouth Center]]. With few apparent prospects for success in Birmingham, Joy moved to Chicago and became the primary architect for the Chicago Manufacturing District, an early prototype for an industrial park. He designed numerous large buildings there, perhaps the most expressive of which is the Power House and Clock Tower of 1917.
Joy rose within the firm and, for several years it did business as [[Wheelock & Wheelock|Wheelock, Joy & Wheelock]]. At the same time he continued to design houses, mainly for members of his successful family and their friends, clustered in [[Forest Park]]. His residential designs reveal an influence of Frank Lloyd Wright not present in his more traditionally-styled institutional buildings.
 
Joy and his brother [[Tom Joy|Tom]] founded the [[Joy Construction Company]] in [[1910]]. They designed and constructed the [[YMCA Building]] on [[20th Street North]] in [[1912]] and added [[Jacob Salie]] to the firm. On [[March 6]], [[1910]] Joy's automobile rolled off the edge of the cliff at [[Bluff Park]] while he was outside cranking it. The car was totaled, but no one was injured.
 
With scant prospects in Birmingham, Joy moved to Chicago and became the primary architect for the Chicago Manufacturing District, an early prototype for an industrial park. He designed numerous large buildings there, perhaps the most expressive of which is the Power House and Clock Tower of 1917. Joy was succeeded as the architect of the district by engineer and former employee, Abraham Epstein in [[1921]]. Two of Joy's other associates, William H. P. Owen and Joseph Brandstetter, resigned to join Epstein's firm.
 
Joy partnered with another architect in the firm of Gallup & Joy which designed the Ritz Theater and the Spanish Renaissance-style Admiral Theater in Chicago and Birmingham's [[LaSalle Apartments]] on [[11th Avenue South]].


Joy's later years apparently signaled personal and professional decline. The [[Great Depression|depression]] years were particularly dry for architects. He died in Orlando, Florida in 1942.
Joy's later years apparently signaled personal and professional decline. The [[Great Depression|depression]] years were particularly dry for architects. He died in Orlando, Florida in 1942.
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==Notable works==
==Notable works==
===Birmingham===
===Birmingham===
* Wheelock, Joy and Wheelock
:''See also: [[Wheelock & Wheelock#Notable buildings|Wheelock & Wheelock]].''
** [[Cathedral Church of the Advent]], 1883
* [[S. Scott Joy residence (1904)]], 4141 [[Crescent Road]], c. [[1904]]
** [[Anheuser-Busch distribution center]] (now [[Center for Regional Planning and Design]]), associated firm, 1890s.
* [[James Harwell residence]], 5 [[Glen Iris Park]], 1906
** [[Molton Hotel]], 501 [[20th Street North]], 1914
* [[Edmund Penruddocke residence]], 2317 [[Arlington Avenue]], c. [[1906]] (attributed)
** [[Lakeview School]]
* [[Hattie Hitchcock Joy residence]], 4011 [[Clairmont Avenue]], 1911 (later joined with the adjacent Frederick Joy residence)
* [[S. Scott Joy residence]], 4141 [[Crescent Road]], 1910
* [[Sentinel Apartments]], 1913
* [[Hattie Hitchcock Joy residence]], 4011 [[Clairmont Avenue]], 1912
* [[Frederick Joy residence (42nd Street)]], 900 [[42nd Street South]] (later joined with the adjacent Hattie Joy residence)
* [[Frederick Merritt Joy residence]], 4215 [[Glenwood Avenue]], 1922
* [[Frederick Joy residence (10th Avenue South)]], 2800 [[10th Avenue South]]
* [[Todd Joy residence]], 900 [[42nd Street South]],
* [[Frederick Joy residence (1910)]], 1933 [[16th Avenue South]], c. [[1910]]
* [[Tom Joy residence]], southeast corner of [[Highland Avenue]] and [[Waucoma Street]] ([[28th Street South]])
* [[S. Scott Joy residence (11th Avenue South)]], northeast corner of [[Eula Street]] ([[21st Place South]]) and [[Rose Avenue]] ([[11th Avenue South]])
* [[20th Street YMCA]], architect and builder, 1912
* [[Frederick Joy residence (1922)]], 4215 [[Glenwood Avenue]], 1922
* [[G. Houston Davis residence]], 3219 [[Glen Avenue]]
* [[Ed Warren residence]], southeast corner of [[Cliff Road]] and [[Whitaker Street]]
* [[Hawthorne residence]], 4001 [[Clairmont Avenue]] (attributed)
* [[Hawthorne residence]], 4001 [[Clairmont Avenue]] (attributed)
* [[Oscar Hundley residence (first)]], [[Niazuma Avenue]]
* [[Oscar Hundley residence (second)]], [[Niazuma Avenue]]
* [[Sterling Lanier residence]], [[Pawnee Avenue]]
* [[Brown-Lowe residence]], 4007 [[Clairmont Avenue]]
* [[Brown-Lowe residence]], 4007 [[Clairmont Avenue]]
* [[20th Street YMCA]], architect and builder, 1912
* [[LaSalle Apartments|LaSalle Apartment Hotel]], 1926 (with Harold Gallup)


===Other===
===Other===
* Chicago
* Chicago Manufacturing District
** Warehouses, Pershing Road from Paulina Street to Western Avenue, 1912-1922
** Warehouses, Pershing Road from Paulina Street to Western Avenue, 1912-1922
** Starck Piano Factory, 1913
** Starck Piano Factory, 1913
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** American Ever Ready Building, 1916
** American Ever Ready Building, 1916
** Central Bag Co. Building, 1916
** Central Bag Co. Building, 1916
** Central Manufacturing District Power House/Cloctower, 1917
** Central Manufacturing District Power House/Clock Tower, 1917
** White City Storage Shipping Platform, 1917
** White City Storage Shipping Platform, 1917
** U. S. Quartermasters Depot, 1918
** U. S. Quartermasters Depot, 1918
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** Kellogg-Mackay Mercantile Building, 1924
** Kellogg-Mackay Mercantile Building, 1924
** Mack Truck Factory and Sales Room, 1925
** Mack Truck Factory and Sales Room, 1925
* Westinghouse Electric Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1922
* Kansas City Cold Storage Co. Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1922
* Kansas City Cold Storage Co. Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1922
* Pere Marquett Building, New Orleans, 1925 (with Charles L. Franck and William E. Spink)
* Ritz Theater, northwest corner of Harding & Lawrence Avenues, Chicago, Illinois, 1924
* Admiral Theater, 3940 W. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1927
* Pere Marquette Building, New Orleans, 1925 (with Charles L. Franck and [[William Spink|William E. Spink]])


==Publications==
==Publications==
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==References==
==References==
* Wheelock, Charles, S. Scott Joy, and Harry B. Wheelock (1905) ''[http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4017coll8/id/3416 Wheelock, Joy, & Wheelock, Architectural Works]'' St Louis, Missouri: Murbell & Co.
* "Joy's Automobile Totally Wrecked" (March 7, 1910) {{BAH}}, p. 5
* "S. Scott Joy" typescript (August 3, 1950), in "Architects & Architecture", Vol. 2 of material compiled by Hill Ferguson for the cornerstone vault in [[Birmingham City Hall]]
* Browne, Catherine Greene (1992) ''The History of Forest Park''. Birmingham: [[A. H. Cather Publishing Company]]
* Browne, Catherine Greene (1992) ''The History of Forest Park''. Birmingham: [[A. H. Cather Publishing Company]]


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Latest revision as of 17:41, 20 May 2023

Samuel Scott Joy (born 1875 in Delaware, Ohio; died 1942 in Orlando, Florida) was a civil engineer and architect active in Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Joy was the son of attorney Frederick Merrick Joy and Hattie Hitchcock. His parents his brothers Tom and Frederick ("Tedd"), who were both engineers, moved to Birmingham with their parents in the early 1900s. He remained to the midwest to study engineering and architecture at the University of Illinois, where he pledged Sigma Chi and graduated 1901. He joined his family in Birmingham before 1903 and worked alongside his brothers as a civil engineer for the firm of Messrs Joy. In 1906 he joined the architectural firm of Wheelock & Wheelock, founded in the 1880s by Charles Wheelock and his son, Harry.

Joy rose within the firm and, for several years it did business as Wheelock, Joy & Wheelock. At the same time he continued to design houses, mainly for members of his successful family and their friends, clustered in Forest Park. His residential designs reveal an influence of Frank Lloyd Wright not present in his more traditionally-styled institutional buildings.

Joy and his brother Tom founded the Joy Construction Company in 1910. They designed and constructed the YMCA Building on 20th Street North in 1912 and added Jacob Salie to the firm. On March 6, 1910 Joy's automobile rolled off the edge of the cliff at Bluff Park while he was outside cranking it. The car was totaled, but no one was injured.

With scant prospects in Birmingham, Joy moved to Chicago and became the primary architect for the Chicago Manufacturing District, an early prototype for an industrial park. He designed numerous large buildings there, perhaps the most expressive of which is the Power House and Clock Tower of 1917. Joy was succeeded as the architect of the district by engineer and former employee, Abraham Epstein in 1921. Two of Joy's other associates, William H. P. Owen and Joseph Brandstetter, resigned to join Epstein's firm.

Joy partnered with another architect in the firm of Gallup & Joy which designed the Ritz Theater and the Spanish Renaissance-style Admiral Theater in Chicago and Birmingham's LaSalle Apartments on 11th Avenue South.

Joy's later years apparently signaled personal and professional decline. The depression years were particularly dry for architects. He died in Orlando, Florida in 1942.

Notable works

Birmingham

See also: Wheelock & Wheelock.

Other

  • Chicago Manufacturing District
    • Warehouses, Pershing Road from Paulina Street to Western Avenue, 1912-1922
    • Starck Piano Factory, 1913
    • Union Bag and Paper Co. Building, 1915
    • American Ever Ready Building, 1916
    • Central Bag Co. Building, 1916
    • Central Manufacturing District Power House/Clock Tower, 1917
    • White City Storage Shipping Platform, 1917
    • U. S. Quartermasters Depot, 1918
    • City Furniture Co. Building, 1919
    • Calumet Refining Co. Building, 1919
    • Edgar T. Ward's Sons Co. Warehouse, 1919
    • Fairbanks Morse Co. Building, 1919
    • Pullman Coach Co. Building, 1919
    • Thompson's Restaurant, 1919
    • American Glue Co. Building, 1920
    • Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Building, 1920
    • Pullman Car Co. Building, 1920
    • Central Manufacturing District Lunchroom, 1923
    • Blue Valley Creamery Co., 1924
    • Kellogg-Mackay Mercantile Building, 1924
    • Mack Truck Factory and Sales Room, 1925
  • Westinghouse Electric Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1922
  • Kansas City Cold Storage Co. Building, Kansas City, Missouri, 1922
  • Ritz Theater, northwest corner of Harding & Lawrence Avenues, Chicago, Illinois, 1924
  • Admiral Theater, 3940 W. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1927
  • Pere Marquette Building, New Orleans, 1925 (with Charles L. Franck and William E. Spink)

Publications

  • Joy, S. Scott (April & May 1921) "The Central Manufacturing District, Chicago, Illinois." Architectural Forum 34.

References

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