Dr. H.J. Bigelow House

The Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House in Newton, Massachusetts is one of the last private residences designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson [Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984] . Designed in 1885, the building was built just a few years before Bigelow's death. The house was restored and divided into five condos in the 1980s by the PBS television series "This Old House" [http://www.tv.com/this-old-house/show/6174/episode_guide.html?season=2&tag=season_nav;next] . Some of the original features, including a circular tower, have been preserved.

Henry Jacob Bigelow was a well known Boston surgeon and a professor at Harvard Medical College. Interestingly, Bigelow's father, Jacob Bigelow, a co-founder of Harvard Medical College and MIT, was also a noted architect, designing Bigelow Chapel and the George Washington Memorial Tower in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, Massachusetts.

References

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works, MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1984