Walter Green Penty
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Walter Green Penty was an architect working in York
, England, and the father of Arthur Penty
(1875–1937) and Frederick Thomas Penty (born 1879), both architects.
W. G. Penty designed the Lighthorseman pub in Fulford Road in the 1870s and Botterill's Horse Repository in Tanner's Moat (of which two arches survive) around 1880. In the 1890s, Arthur joined his father to form the firm of Penty & Penty. Among other works, they built the Terry Memorial almshouses in Skeldergate in 1899, and a number of streets in the Clementhorpe area of York, before Arthur left the city to work in London.
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
, England, and the father of Arthur Penty
Arthur Penty
Arthur Joseph Penty was a British architect, and writer on Guild socialism and distributism. He was first a Fabian socialist, and follower of Victorian thinkers William Morris and John Ruskin...
(1875–1937) and Frederick Thomas Penty (born 1879), both architects.
W. G. Penty designed the Lighthorseman pub in Fulford Road in the 1870s and Botterill's Horse Repository in Tanner's Moat (of which two arches survive) around 1880. In the 1890s, Arthur joined his father to form the firm of Penty & Penty. Among other works, they built the Terry Memorial almshouses in Skeldergate in 1899, and a number of streets in the Clementhorpe area of York, before Arthur left the city to work in London.