Arthur Little | |
|---|---|
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| Born | November 29, 1852 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | March 27, 1925 (aged 72) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Burial place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse |
Jessie Maria Whitman
(m. 1903) |
| Relatives | Grace A. Oliver (sister) |
Arthur Little (November 29, 1852 – March 27, 1925) was an American architect.
Biography
editArthur Little was born November 29, 1852, in Boston, Massachusetts to James Lovell Little, a founder of the Union Club of Boston, and Julia Augusta Cook. Little attended the Chauncy Hall School in Waltham, Massachusetts and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating, Little apprenticed at the Boston firm of Peabody and Stearns before starting his own architectural practice in 1877.
In 1890 Little partnered with Herbert W. C. Browne, forming Little and Browne, a partnership that lasted until Little’s death in 1925.
Little married Jessie Maria Whitman in 1903. He died March 27, 1925, at his home in Boston.
Works
edit- Early New England Interiors (1878)
- "The Cliffs" residence of George Dudley Howe (1879), Smith's Point, Manchester, Massachusetts
- "Shingleside" (c. 1881), Little’s Point, Swampscott, Massachusetts
- "Grasshead" (c. 1881), Little’s Point, Swampscott, Massachusetts
- "River Inducement" for Rev. Cyrus Bartol, Norton’s Point, Manchester, Massachusetts
- "Barn Inducement" for Rev. Cyrus Bartol, Norton’s Point, Manchester, Massachusetts
- "Fort Inducement" for Rev. Cyrus Bartol, Norton’s Point, Manchester, Massachusetts
- "Betsy's Inducement" for Rev. Cyrus Bartol, Norton’s Point, Manchester, Massachusetts
Little and Browne
edit- Brandegee Estate (1890 and 1897), 280 Newton St., Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts (Little, Browne & Moore)
- Peabody Institute (1891), 15 Sylvan St., Danvers, Massachusetts
- Central Congregational Church (1891–1893), Lynn, Massachusetts
- Glen Magna Farms expansion (1893), Ingersoll St., Danvers, Massachusetts (Little, Browne & Moore)
- Dunster Building (1895–1896), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Larz Anderson House (1902–1905), 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
- Francis Dewey House (1912), 71 Elm St., Worcester, Massachusetts
- Knollwood (1914), 425 Salisbury St., Worcester, Massachusetts
- H. G. Vaughn House (1915), 5 Sparhawk Rd., Sherborn, Massachusetts
- Masonic Hall (1915), Salem, Massachusetts
- North Wales plantation houses, 7500 Ironwood Ln., Warrenton, Virginia
- (1893), 49 Bay State Rd., Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts
- Little residence (1893), 57 Bay State Rd., Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts
- "Sunset Rock" residence for William S. and John T. Spaulding (1897), Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts
- "Swiftmore" residence for Edwin Carleton Swift (1899), Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts
- "Rock-Marge" residence for William Henry Moore (), Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts
- "Eagle Rock" residence for Henry Clay Frick (1904), Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts
- Somerset Club interior remodel (), 42–43 Beacon St., Boston, Massachusetts
- Larz Anderson Estate interior remodel (1899), Brookline, Massachusetts
Gallery
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In his Boston Bohemia 1881-1900; Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture, Douglass Shand-Tucci describes the formation of Little and Browne: “About the time Cram and [Charles] Wentworth got going, another firm, Little and Brown [sic], also set up business, formed by one of Wentworth’s ex-fellow draftsmen at Andrews and Jaques, Herbert Browne, and Arthur Little, who, with their mutual friend Ogden Codman, were christened — such was to be their influence — the ‘Colonial Trinity.’ It was a formidable combination. Little, particularly, the designer in the 1880s of a series of brilliant Colonial Revival houses, could easily be called the real-life Seymour of William Dean Howells’ The Rise of Silas Lapham (the young architect who in 1884 talks the Laphams out of brownstone and black walnut for a Colonial-style house).”