William Channing Whitney

William Ellery Channing Whitney[1] (April 11, 1851 – August 23, 1945) was an American architect who practiced in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Whitney worked in the Boston architectural office of William Ralph Emerson and Carl Fehmer for several years during the 1870s.

In 1885 he began to practice on his own and soon gained a reputation among the Minneapolis manufacturing and milling elite for his high-style residential designs.

Within the tasteful exteriors that appealed to his upper-class patrons, Whitney's houses were full of modern innovations such as central vacuum cleaning plants, electrical refrigeration, and intercom systems.

As a prominent architect of Minneapolis, he was selected to design the Minnesota Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.