William G. Preston was an American architect. He was active in Boston and Georgia, where he designed the De Soto Hotel and the Savannah Volunteer Guards Armory. Many of his buildings were pictured as prints in American Architect and Building News.

He designed Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

's Rogers Building in 1864, located on Boylston Street near Boston's Copley Square, which housed the school's architecture department. Floor plans for the building show a large, centrally located space devoted to an architectural library and museum. Drawings from the Study Collection were hung on the studio walls and numerous casts and other artifacts also lined the walls and picture rails.

Projects

• Rogers Building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  , 1864, on Boylston Street near Copley Square, Boston
• De Soto Hotel in Savannah Georgia, (razed, now the site of the Hilton DeSoto Hotel)
• Savannah Volunteer Guards Armory, 1893
• Armory of the First Corps of Cadets of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
  Armory of the First Corps of Cadets
  Armory of the First Corps of Cadets is an historic armory at 97-105 Arlington Street and 130 Columbus Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.The late-Victorian armory was built in 1897 by William Gibbons Preston and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.-References:...
  
  , pictured in August 20, 1892, American Architect and Building News
• Central Station
  Central Station
  -Railway stations:A central station is generally the principal passenger railway station of major towns and cities which have multiple stations, or a station owned by a railway with "Central" in its name, such as the English Great Central Railway....
  
   of West End Street Railway Company, Boston
• Chadwick Lead Works, Boston
• Armory of the First Corps of Cadets of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Boston
• Mason Building, Liberty Square, Boston
• Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
  Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
  The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association of Boston, Massachusetts, was "formed for the sole purposes of promoting the mechanic arts and extending the practice of benevolence." Founding members included Paul Revere, Benjamin Russell, and others...
  
   building, Huntington Avenue and West Newton Streets, Boston
• Quincy Market Cold Storage Warehouse
• John Hancock Building (Devonshire) on Devonshire Street, Boston
• The Aubry on Dartmouth and Newbury Streets (W.G. Preston & A.C.)
• Boston Terra Cotta Company's "New Building"
• Claflin Building (1873), originally the Boston University School of Religious Education and Social Service building built by one of Boston University's founders. Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell
  Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
  
   taught in the building. It has also held retail businesses and then became a residential apartment building.
• Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston University
  Boston University
  Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
  
  
• Boston Transit Commission Building
  Boston Transit Commission Building
  Boston Transit Commission Building is an historic building at 15 Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts.The building was constructed by William Gibbons Preston and added to the National Historic Register in 2007....
  
  , 15 Beacon Street, Boston
• Walter E. Fernald State School
  Walter E. Fernald State School
  The Walter E. Fernald State School, now the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, is the Western hemisphere's oldest publicly funded institution serving people with developmental disabilities. Originally a Victorian sanatorium, it became a "poster child" for...
  
  , 200 Trapelo Road, Waltham, Massachusetts
  Waltham, Massachusetts
  Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...
  
  
• Templeton Farm Colony
  Templeton Farm Colony
  Templeton Farm Colony is a historic colony at 126 Royalston Road in Templeton, Massachusetts.The farm was built in 1899 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994....
  
  , 126 Royalston Road, Templeton, Massachusetts
  Templeton, Massachusetts
  Templeton is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,013 at the 2010 census. The town comprises four main villages: Templeton Center, East Templeton, Baldwinville, and Otter River...
  
  
• Thomas Webster Estate 238 Webster Street, Marshfield, Massachusetts
  Marshfield, Massachusetts
  Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,132 at the 2010 census.See also: Green Harbor, Marshfield , Rexhame, Marshfield Hills, and Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock....