Family Name	Wells
First Name	Alfred
Middle Name(s) if any
Date of Birth	16 May 1859
Place of Birth	Marryatville, South Australia
Date of Death	8 December 1935
Place of Death	Memorial Hospital, South Australia
Place of Burial
Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)
Lived in Prospect (dates)	At 2 Salisbury Tce, Collinswood with his wife Gertrude in 1905. Alfred Wells purchased this property from George Brookman & Co. in 1896 and built the house shortly after (by 1899) and moved in his wife Gertrude in 1905 to 1930.
Addresses in Prospect	Rathmines, 2 Salisbury Tce Collinswood
Names of houses (if any)	Rathmines  (Prospect Council Local Heritage List)
Parents	Percy Wells & Caroline (b.1831 d.1901),
Spouse(s)	Gertrude E. Pollock
Date(s) of Marriage(s)	29 August 1883
Place(s) of Marriage(s)	St Matthews Church, Kensington, South Australia
Children	Alfred Cuthbert Wells (1884 – 30 December 1952) married Angelica Leslie Pooler (1888–) on 30 July 1910 Geoffrey Erskine Wells (22 January 1891 – 6 October 1917) was, as Captain Wells of 2nd AIF, killed in action, Belgium. (Marjorie) Gertrude Wells (25 January 1888 –) married John Digby Yeatman MM (c. January 1890 –) on 25 September 1920. She at one time inherited a painting by Whistler, later purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia Audrey Hall Wells (7 July 1897 – 24 October 1953) married Capt. Oscar William Chalker MC (27 July 1894 – 10 December 1953) on 20 September 1927, lived at Oak Lodge, Mount Lofty. He died of an injury to the back of his head, presumably accidental.
Occupation(s)	Architect (retired in 1926). By the time he was 35 (1894), was one of Adelaide's noted architects. Worked with the Engineer-in-Chief's Department under H. C. Mais, Edmund Wright , Architect-in-Chief's Department under E. J. Woods then with Ernest Bayer and Latham A. Withall.
Interests	Served as councillor for the City of St. Peters and, like his father, was a prominent Freemason (Lodge of Harmony No. 3). Fellow and Vice-President of the South Australian Institute of Architects .
Religion/Churches
Notes (points of interest etc.)	Considered one of Adelaide's foremost architects  including family home of Rathmines, Collinswood,  Adelaide Arcade,  Jubilee Exhibition Building (demolished c. 1965), Allen Campbell Building, Angas Building, Adelaide Electric Supply Company's building on East Terrace (now Warriparinga), Brookman Building on Grenfell Street, Norwood Town Hall,  Thebarton Town Hall, former South Australian Hotel on North Terrace.
Sources of information	Sullivan, Christine, 'Wells, Alfred’, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia, 2008, Architects of South Australia. Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912)  4 Sept 1883 page 2
Principal researcher	Kristina Barnett