Significant Works
- 12 Ampton Road (Shenstone House), Edgbaston - Chamberlain's first house; 'the first High Victorian house in the town'
- Birmingham Central Library (1882) - Demolished in 1974.
- Chamberlain Memorial, Birmingham (1882)
- 136–138 Edmund Street, Birmingham (1875).
- The Grove, Harborne, Birmingham (Demolished, one room preserved as "The Harborne Room" at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London)
- Highbury Hall, Moseley, Birmingham.
- Oozells Street Board School (now the Ikon Gallery), Brindleyplace, Birmingham City Centre.
- Shakespeare Memorial Room in Birmingham Central Library (1882). Dismantled in 1974 and reassembled in the current Central Library in 1983. It will move to the top of the new Library of Birmingham in 2013.
- Birmingham School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham. (1881) Designed by Chamberlain but completed by William Martin on Chamberlain's death.
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