{"id":893,"date":"2016-09-17T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T02:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2016-09-17T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T02:32:20","slug":"george-grier-bassett-architect-and-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/george-grier-bassett-architect-and-painter\/","title":{"rendered":"George Grier Bassett, Architect and Painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Grier Bassett descends from #4B William Bassett of Lynn as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Roger Bassett and wife Ann Holland<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Sarah Burt<br \/>\nElisha Bassett (b. 1649) and wife Elizabeth Collins<br \/>\nElisha Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Abigail Davis<br \/>\nJoseph Bassett (b. 1765) and wife Mary Allen<br \/>\nBenjamin Bassett (b. 1801) and wife Mary Acton<br \/>\nRichard Bassett (b. 1837) and wife Lydia Ann Grier<br \/>\nGeorge Grier Bassett (b. 1870) and wife Alice Posey Chambers<\/p>\n<p>George Grier Bassett was an architect. Later in life he took up painting oils and watercolors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GeoBassettPainting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GeoBassettPainting.jpg\" alt=\"geobassettpainting\" width=\"552\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GeoBassettPainting.jpg 552w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/GeoBassettPainting-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a>George G. Bassett, Rockport, Massachusetts Dock Scene 1940<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">George Grier Bassett (1870 &#8211; 1970)<br \/>\nPhiladelphia Architects and Buildings<br \/>\nBorn: 3\/30\/1870 Died: 6\/27\/1970<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George Grier Bassett may be Philadelphia&#8217;s only centenarian architect. He was born in Salem, NJ, the son of Richard and Lydia Ann (Grier) Bassett. After an education in private schools and with tutors, he came to Philadelphia and in 1889 entered the office of Theophilus Parsons Chandler as a draftsman. By 1893 he had joined the firm of Baily &amp; Truscott and by 1902 was a partner in that firm. After Arthur Truscott resigned from the firm in 1904, Bassett&#8217;s name replaced his in the partnership, creating Baily &amp; Bassett. This association continued until William Bailey&#8217;s retirement in 1930\/1. The dissolution of the partnership freed Bassett to travel extensively in the United States and abroad, where he devoted himself to painting in both oils and watercolors.<\/p>\n<p>Like his partner, William L. Baily, Bassett was a member of the Society of Friends. He had joined the T-Square Club in 1892, the Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA in 1905, and the national AIA in 1910. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Grier Bassett descends from #4B William Bassett of Lynn as follows: Roger Bassett and wife Ann Holland William Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Sarah Burt Elisha Bassett (b. 1649) and wife Elizabeth Collins Elisha Bassett (b. 1692) and wife &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/george-grier-bassett-architect-and-painter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}