Architect, United States In 1901, Wilson Eyre’s interest in domestic architecture and interior furnishings led him to help found the magazine House and Garden, a journal that was the mouthpiece for the Arts and Crafts movement in Philadelphia. Espousing the beauty of well-integrated gardens and homes, the magazine was coedited and illustrated by Eyre until the magazine changed hands in 1905. By then, Eyre was a noted specialist in the design of country houses in Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture 814 Pennsylvania, and his commissions took him as far afield as New Hampshire, Louisiana, Delaware, and Michigan, leading him to establish a second office in New York City. In 1912 he joined the firm of Gilbert McIlvaine (1880–1939) as a principal designer. However, his architectural practice waned during the 1920s and 1930s, ultimately collapsing with McIlvaine’s death in 1939. By the time of Eyre’s own death five years later, he had designed nearly 350 buildings, most of them domestic...