Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr.

Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. (August 18, 1854, Portland, Maine – February 16, 1934, Portland) was an American architect and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Biography

He was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr. (1814-1901), a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and of Elisabeth Porter. After graduating from Harvard University in 1876, he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then worked as senior draftsman in Henry Hobson Richardson's office.

After Richardson's death in 1886, Longfellow teamed up with Frank Ellis Alden (1859-1908) and Alfred Branch Harlow (1857-1927), and founded the firm of Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, with offices in Boston and Pittsburgh. The firm designed the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the City Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Hunnewell building at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston.

Longfellow later moved to Boston, where he worked in association with his brother, William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1836-1913). He designed several structures around Harvard, including the Brattle Theatre, the Phillips Brooks House, the Semitic Museum, the Bertram and Eliot Halls at Radcliffe College, and chemical laboratories. He also designed the Washington Street Elevated, the Theodore Parker Church in West Roxbury, and a Maine Historical Society library building.

He was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, active in the Marine Museum of the Bostonian Society, and a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Athenæum.

References

* Margaret Henderson Floyd, "Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh", University of Chicago Press (1994). ISBN 0226254100

External links

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* [http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/aldhar.html "Alden & Harlow Collection"] , at Carnegie Mellon University
* [http://lnhstest.brinkster.net/Level2/house/Ext-Garden/FamilyArchitects.html "Longfellow Family Architects"] , at the Longfellow National Historic Site