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The Scholar Builders: Regional Architects of the American Renaissance 1876 - 1913

September 21 - October 9, 1987

1987

The Gallery of Southeastern Massachusetts University

Thomas W. Puryear

This exhibition has come about because of a realization that there are many handsome buildings from the turn of the century scattered about the towns of Southeastern Massachusetts. These buildings are in many ways more influential in our daily lives than we realize, for they are largely public or civic buildings, and they are generally built in a twentieth-century version of Neo-Classical or Neo-Georgian Style. They present an "image" which helps us to form an impression of the town, institution or homeowner represented by the building. We rarely stop to ask why it is that the post offices, court houses, municipal buildings, schools, and even some mansion houses of the period up to World War I (and even beyond) seem to display similar classicising features. This exhibition hopes to provide an answer to that question and to give some insight into the men and women who designed them.

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Brigham , Charles

Charles Brigham

American

1841 - 1925

Charles Brigham of Boston was a leading Boston designer of buildings who is well known in this region. His early work was firmly in the Medieval mode and his Fairhaven buildings such as the Unitarian Church and its Parish House, or the Town Hall are decidedly Medieval in style. His Neo-Classical work begam in the 1890's. Two buildings serve to characterize the later work of this architect. One of these is the Neo-Georgian residential manner, the other a more institutional Beaux-Arts Classicism.

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Lewis M. Witherell

Witherell , Lewis M.

American

1851 - 1938

In Taunton, many projects build by this "carpenter and builder" fall into this category of American Renaissance buildings. His structures have no architect's name assiciated with them and it has not been determined whether he designed them or simply erected them on behalf of an architect. Active around 1900, his buildings are predictably eclectic.

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Destremps , Louis G,

Louis G. Destremps

Canadian - American

1853 - 1930

Louis G. Destremps (1851–1916) was a Canadian-born American architect who worked extensively with the Roman Catholic Church and other clients in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is the father of Louis E. Destremps, who also designed notable buildings in the New Bedford, Massachusetts area. Destremps, was born in Montreal, Canada, May 9, 1851. He received his early educational training in his native city. In 1870, he came with his parents to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, remaining there six months, when they moved to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In 1872, his parents returned to Canada and Louis came to Fall River, where he worked as a carpenter. In 1875, when a great fire occurred at St. John's, Canada, he went there and followed his trade until 1881, when he went to New York to study architecture at Sixth Avenue High School, from which he graduated, completing the 4-year course. In 1874, Destremps married Celina Mayer of Fall River. Together they had six children, including Louis E. Destremps who would later follow his father's profession and establish his own practice in the New Bedford area. In 1885, Destremps moved to Fall River and set up his architectural firm. Between 1888 and 1889, he relocated temporarily to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was architect for the State Agricultural College at Kingston, Rhode Island. In later years he would design many notable structures in Fall River. Destremps was frequently employed as supervising architect for the work of other architects, including Napoléon Bourassa and Joseph Venne. His own masterpiece, Notre Dame De Lourdes Church in Fall River, Massachusetts was destroyed in a 4-alarm fire in 1982. The event was reported in the news media throughout New England.[3]

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Destremps , Louis E.

Louis E. Destremps

Canadian - American

1875 - 1919

Louis E. Destremps was a Canadian-born American architect who designed several notable buildings in the New Bedford, Massachusetts area. Among his most notable works are the Orpheum Theatre and Star Store. He was the son of architect Louis G. Destremps, who primarily practiced in Fall River, Massachusetts. Destremps was born on June 9, 1875 in Montreal, Canada. He later lived in New York City where he received his early education. His family later moved to Fall River, Massachusetts where his father established his firm. Destremps joined his father's firm at age eighteen, where he worked for four years before moving to Newport, Rhode Island, joining the firm of Andrews & Withers. Destremps also later worked in that firm's New York office. Destremps married Antonia Latrobe of Pittsfield, Massachusetts on June 16, 1897. They had three children together. In 1905, Destremps moved to New Bedford and established his own office in the Masonic Building. He soon established himself as one of the area's premier architects. During this period, his designs included numerous public and private buildings, including the Orpheum Theatre, the Star Store Building, and several school buildings in New Bedford.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_E._Destremps ; The Scholar Builders: Regional Architects of the American Renaissance 1876 - 1913

Corbett , Edward

Edward Corbett

American

1873 - 1966

A graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School in 1899, Corbett was a lifetime resident of Fall River. He designed the recently destroyed Granite Block and several schools for the city during his long professional career and was the architect of the Fall River Police Station on Bedford Street.

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Charles H. Farnham

Farnham , Charles H.

American

1841 - 1929

Farnham was another Fall River builder active in the 1890's. He is credited with the Young Men's Irish American Society on Anawan Street (1895) in addition to his residential work here.

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Darling , Joseph M.

American

1833 - 1918

Joseph Darling was born in Rhode Island and moved to Fall River with his family in 1839. His father, Horatio Nelson Darling, was a builder by trade and Josphen joined his father's business at the age of twenty, as did his brother, Horatio N. Darling, Jr. They established their own firm in the 1850's and received many civic and private commissions over the next forty years. Joseph Darling was a self-taught architect, always listed in the Fall Eiver City Directory as "Contractor, architect and builder". His buildings, like those of Caleb Hammond of New Bedford, reveal a slow shift away from the Queen Anne to the Neo-Georgian. He was a prominent citizen of Fall River, acting as a member of the Fall River Common Council in the 1870's. At his death he was referred to as the senior architect of the city.

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Nathanial Cannon Smith

Smith , Nathanial Cannon

American

1866 - 1943

Born in New Bedford and educated in public schools there, the most imporatant step in Smith's professional life came in 1889 when he chose to abandon a career as a pictorial wood engraver and to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his four year education, he was to receive a rich grounding in Classicism. Upon his return to New Bedford he opened his own architectural practice. He also taught architectural design at the Swain School of Art. His best known works were the Clarence Cook School on Summer Street, the Brockton Public Library, and the Fall River Y.M.C.A on North Main Street. Among his commissions in New Bedord was the re-designing of the Town Hall and Market Place (Russell Warren, 1838). This building had been gutted by fire and the town offices removed across William Street to the Free Public Library. It was decided to rebuild the old Town Hall in the form of a new library and Smith was given the job. The present neo-classical interior is the result. In 1913 he formed a partnership with Myron P. Howland. This was dissolved in 1921 when Howland left New Bedford, though Smith continued practice until 1936. He died in New Bedford at the age of 77.

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Hunt , Samuel C.

Samuel C. Hunt

American

1858 - 1908

Like Caleb Hammond, Hunt was first apprenticed to a house carpenter at the age of 16. He studied drawing at evening school and according to a newspaper article, "when not at work in the winter months studied architecture in Boston". Presumably, this means at M.I.T., since that was the only place in Boston where such study was possible at that time. In the 1870's he was a contractor and once the foreman of his works for the Trintarian Church (now the Pilgrim Church) on Purchase Street. In the 1880's he was a contracter and buillder active throughout Bristol County. He opened an architecture office in the Odd Fellows Building in 1891. He was the deisgner of The Dawson Block on Purchase Street. Among many civic commissions was the Clifford School on Coggeshall Street. He is best known, however for the Bristol County Registry of Deeds and the New Bedford Municipal Building. In addition to private homes, many of the three story tenements in New Bedford were designed by him. He once held the office of alderman from Ward 2 and was popular enough to have been nominated for County Commissioner on the Republican ticket in 1897.

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Hammond , Henry F.

Henry F. Hammond

American

1865 - 1910

Brother Henry F. Hammond worked as a carpenter for his father and was considered a partner in the firm though never an architect in his own right, He died "after suffering a shock" at the age of 45. Like his father, he was an active member of the New Bedford Veteran Fireman's Association, perhaps a factor in the five fire stations built by the firm.

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Edgar Hammond

Hammond , Edgar

American

1854 - 1937

Edgar B. Hammond, of the tenth Hammond and the ninth Alden generation, eldest son of Caleb and Anna T. (Hazard) Hammond, was born in New Bedford, March i8, 1854. He passed all public school grades, including second year of high school, then for a year was a stu- dent at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and for one year under the instruction of Professor Edward A. H. Allen, of New Bedford, princi- pal of a private school. These last two years were devoted to the special study of mathematics, strength of materials, stresses and design of truss work, walls, piers. After leaving school he entered the employ of his father, an architect, carpenter and builder, head of a general contracting business. At intervals of office work he was with the men on the various jobs, working as a carpenter, a practical knowledge of the building trades being acquired while learning architectural drawing and designing. Eight years were thus spent in preparation before admission to a partner- ship, but the firm Caleb Hammond once formed has ever since endured, a grandson of Caleb Hammond now being associated with his uncle, Edgar B. Hammond, as an assistant. The offices of the firm are at No. 179 North Water street, having been there since the removal of Caleb Hammond from William street, when the Cummings building was erected. The following are some of the city buildings designed by this firm : Cedar Street School ; Acushnet Avenue School ; remodeling the old High School on Middle street ; remodeling the Dartmouth Street School ; Cedar Grove Street School ; Phillips Avenue School ; Harrington Memo- rial School ; Brock Avenue School ; Shawmut Avenue School ; Fire Engine Houses, Nos. i, 6, 7, 8 and 11 ; addition to the old Public Library, now the municipal building; city stable buildings; City Isolation Hos- pital. Among other school buildings designed by this firm may be men- tioned : Tabor Academy in Marion, and the Sacred Heart School in New Bedford ; mercantile buildings in New Bedford ; Waite building on Wil- liam street; N. P. Hayes building; the old Citizens' Bank building, corner of William and Second streets ; the first office building of Sandford & Kel- ley ; the Wing buildings on Purchase street and Hall's Court ; Globe and Journal buildings on Acushnet avenue; the Household building; the Winslow block ; Odd Fellows, now Dufif, building ; Cherry store build- ings ; Wamsutta Hall building ; Corson block ; also many smaller stores and offices. Among the principal New Bedford residences either wholly designed or extensively remodeled by this firm are : Hon. C. S. Ashley, Hon. David L. Parker, Paul Howland, Mrs. Benjamin H. Anthony, Miss Ivers, Edward Wilson, George R. Cherry, Mrs. Edmund Wilde, William A. Robinson, Jr., Edwin L. Barney, Jr., Henry Corson, Gideon Poisson, Joseph Poisson, Dr. D. D. Pratt, Mrs. Samuel France, E. Williams Hervey, David A. Snell, Mrs. J. C. Rhodes, Albert R. Pierce. Mrs. R. M. Gibbs, David Beaman, Charles T. Smith, John S. Howland. The firm has always had considerable out-of-town work, and buildings from its designs are in most of the towns in the southeastern part of the State. On account of his long association with yachts and vessels, Mr. Edgar B. Hammond was selected to gather the necessary data and design the model whaleship in the Bourne Whaling Museum. Some idea of the difficulty of this undertaking may be gained when one understands that a complete half-size duplicate was desired of a vessel built over seventy years ago, and of which there are no plans, model or pictures in existence. The designs had to be made from the best descriptions that were obtain- able from the very few now living who remembered the original vessel at all well. The fact that the finished model has won the unstinted praise of all the old whaling captains who have seen it is sufficient proof of the care, patience and understanding with which Mr. Hammond and his assistants solved the many problems connected with this work. Mr. Hammond has a genius for his business, both inherited and acquired, and is one of the best known and highly rated architects of his section of the State. An independent in politics, he has served his city most efficiently in connection with her educational system. For nine years he was a mem- ber of the school committee and for several of these years was vice-chair- man. Since the organization of the New Bedford Industrial School, in 1908, he has been chairman of its board of trustees. Yachting is his fav- orite out-of-doors sport, and since the founding of the New Bedford Yacht Club, in 1877, ^e has been a director and for nine years he was commodore. He is a member of and was for three years a director of the Dartmouth Club ; was president of the Technology Club of New Bed- ford for one year ; member of the Technology Club of New York ; Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association ; Old Dartmouth Historical Society ; and the Brooks Club ; his religious faith Unitarian. Mr. Hammond married in New Bedford, March 26, 1884, Anna B. Salisbury, born there May 17, 1859, daughter of Levi and Cassandra D. (Potter) Salisbury, her father for many years a member of the firm of Salisbury & Viall, meat dealers. The Hammond home is at No. 66 North street, New Bedford.

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Caleb Hammond

Hammond , Caleb

American

1829 - 1903

Caleb Hammond, son of Amittai Hammond and father of Edgar B. Hammond, was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, November 19, 1829, and died in New Bedford, March 25, 1903, and with his wife is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. For nearly half a century he was very active in New Bedford as a builder and architect was keenly interested in civic affairs, served as councilman in 1856-57, 1863-64; served as alderman from Ward i, in 1866-67; in 1879 member of school board; in 1880 he was alderman from Ward 3 ; city surveyor for several years previous to 1873, and under his directions both Rural and Oak Grove cemeteries were laid out. While a member of the school board, he was chairman of the committee which favorably reported upon the question of evening draw- ing schools. He was a very strong advocate of temperance all his active lifetime, and in his younger years was a member and an officer of several temperance societies. He was a man of very strong conviction, was of an investigating turn of mind, and any new theory or doctrine, religious or scientific, claimed his interest until he had decided upon its merits. He was honest to the extreme limit, just and fair in all his dealings, pro- vided generously for those dependent upon him, and possessed a pleasant, genial disposition which reflected kindness and good will upon all who came within his influence. In his business he was for a time a partner of Simeon Ashley ; their shop was located on William street, the site now covered by the Cummings block. When that building was erected, he moved to the building on North Water street, on the site of the office now occupied by Caleb Hammond & Son, who succeeded Ashley & Ham- mond. He was a self-taught architect, and between i860 and 1889 drew the plans for many of the public school buildings and fire stations for the city. At the time George B. Richmond rebuilt the New Bedford-Fair- haven bridge, Mr. Hammond was appointed by the city council as engi- neer in charge, on behalf of the city. Caleb Hammond married, April 25, 1852, Anna T. Hazard, born October 20, 1833, d'^d June 6, 1901, daughter of Perry and Anna (Tomp- kins) Hazard, her parents residing at Acoaksett on the west bank of the Westport river in the town of Westport, Massachusetts. Perry Hazard was of the same family as Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of Lake Erie, and his wife, Anna (Tompkins) Perry, traced descent from that famous Puritan couple, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of the "Mayflower," she being of the seventh American generation, her daughter, Anna T., of the eighth, and her grandchildren, Edgar B. and Henry F. Hammond, of the ninth generation of the American John Alden family. Henry F. Ham- mond, second son of Caleb and Anna T. (Hazard) Hammond, was born in New Bedford, October 13, 1856, died there July 24, 1910, and lies with his parents in Oak Grove Cemetery. He was a member of the contracting firm, Caleb Hammond & Son, member of the New Bedford Protecting Society, and interested in the city fire department, belonging to the Vet- eran Fireman's Association. He married Emma L. Fuller, and left two sons : Francis T., an architect of New Bedford ; and Chester B., formerly a designer in Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company, now instructor in the Boston Trades School.

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