Hartwell & Swasey was a short-lived 19th-century architectural firm in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] The partnership between Henry Walker Hartwell (1833-1919) and Albert E. Swasey, Jr. lasted from the late-1860s to 1877, when Swasey went on his own.[2] In 1881, Hartwell formed a partnership with William Cummings RichardsonHartwell and Richardson – that lasted until his death.

Academy Building, in 1979

Several of Hartwell & Swasey's buildings were designed in Ruskinian Gothic Revival style, featuring polychrome brick and carved stone details. A number of the firm's works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[3][4]

Selected works edit

References edit

  1. ^ Richardson, Henry Hobson (1972). Robert Bell Rettig (ed.). Architecture of H.H. Richardson and his contemporaries in Boston and vicinity. Society of Architectural Historians. p. 12.
  2. ^ James F. O'Gorman, On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), p.111.[1]
  3. ^ Fall River MRA
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.