James Gilbert Chandler (August 4, 1856 – January 17, 1924) was a prominent architect in Racine, Wisconsin.
Personal life Chandler was born at Berlin Falls, New Hampshire, on August 4, 1856, to Milton Walker Chandler and Sarah Grover Chandler.White, J. T. 1933. The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: James T. White & Company, p. 340. After attending school in Zumbrota, Minnesota, and Madison, Wisconsin, he studied architecture in Madison, and then started working as an architect in 1879. In 1885 he married Francis Mary Evans, with whom he had four children. He died on January 17, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Work Chandler's firm was known as Chandler & Parks.Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin: Containing Biographical Sketches of Business and Professional Men and of Many of the Early Settled Families (J.H. Beers & Co J.H. Beers & Company, 1906 - Kenosha (Wis.) - 645 pages He was involved in the design of several building listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). He designed the Shoop Building and the Racine YMCA (both NRHP listed). Chandler was in charge of remodeling and enlarging of all three of architect Lucas Bradley's Garfield schools.
See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Racine County, Wisconsin
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