Peter Ellis (architect)

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16 Cook Street

Peter Ellis (born 1808, died 1888) was a Liverpool architect. He lived for a time at 40 Falkner Square, on which an English Heritage Blue Plaque is now sited.

He designed the revolutionary Oriel Chambers in 1864 at the corner of Water Street and Covent Garden in Liverpool, said by some to be the finest building in Liverpool and one of the most influential buildings of its age.^[1]

Ellis's only other known commission was 16 Cook Street, Liverpool, of 1866. Like Oriel Chambers, this building has an extraordinary expanse of glass for its period.

He died of a stomach ulcer on June 6, 1888.^{[citation needed]}

Ellis' buildings influenced the later work of the United States architect John Wellborn Root, who lived in Liverpool for a period.^{[citation needed]}