Warren Heywood Williams (1844 in New York City – January 1888) was an American architect, who spent most of his career working in the U.S. state of Oregon. Starting in 1860, he apprenticed in San Francisco as a draftsman at the architectural firm of his father, Stephen H. Williams, and Henry W. Cleaveland. Warren Heywood Williams and his wife, Christina (c. 1847–1929),"Christina F. Williams" (obituary). The Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), September 5, 1929, p. 12. had two sons who became architects, Warren Franklin Williams (died 1917) and David Lochead Williams (born September 2, 1866).
Williams worked as an architect from 1869 to 1887. He worked with his father in the firm then named S.H. Williams & Son, while the elder and younger Williams were both living in San Francisco. In January 1873, Warren Williams moved with his wife and three children to Portland, Oregon. From then until mid-1874, he was partners in an architecture firm with E.M. Burton. Subsequently, Williams partnered with Justus Krumbein from 1875 to 1878. Williams was an architect of cast-iron buildings in the United States and Canada.
Williams died of pneumonia in January 1888.
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BuildingYear CompletedBuilderStyleLocationImage S.E. Young home 1800s Warren Heywood Williams Queen Anne Style Albany, Oregon Masonic Temple 1800s Warren Heywood Williams Queen Anne Style Eugene, Oregon Merchants' Hotel 1880 Warren Heywood Williams Second Empire Portland, Oregon Calvary Presbyterian Church (The Old Church) 1882 Warren Heywood Williams & builder W. F. Lewis High Victorian Gothic Carpenter Gothic Portland, Oregon Morris Marks House 1882 Warren Heywood Williams Italianate Cast Iron - Commercial Portland, Oregon Richard Knapp House1882 (Demolished)William F. McawQueen AnnePortland, Oregon James McNaught House 1884-5 (Demolished) Warren Heywood Williams Italianate Seattle, Washington Bank of British Columbia 1885 Warren Heywood Williams Italianate Victoria, British Columbia Deady and Villard Halls, University of OregonGuide to the John C. Pratt Collection of Warren Heywood Williams Architectural Drawings 1887-1958 http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv28058 1885 Warren Heywood Williams Second Empire University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Grand Stable and Carriage Building 1887 Warren Heywood Williams Carpenter Gothic Portland, Oregon Flavel Block 1887-8 (Destroyed 1922)The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon), 19 Aug. 1887. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96061150/1887-08-19/ed-1/seq-3/> George Flavel Victorian Astoria, Oregon Temple Beth Israel, Portland 1889 Warren Heywood Williams Moorish Byzantine Portland, Oregon Craigdarroch Castle 1890 Warren Heywood Williams & Arthur L. Smith Victorian-era Châteauesque Victoria, British Columbia
See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Southwest Portland, Oregon
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