User:RGKMA/sandbox/Arthur Little (architect)

Arthur Little
BornNovember 29, 1852
DiedMarch 27, 1925 (1925-03-28) (aged 72)
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery
Education
OccupationArchitect
Spouse
Jessie Maria Whitman
(m. 1903)
RelativesGrace A. Oliver (sister)

Arthur Little (November 29, 1852 – March 27, 1925) was an American architect.

Biography

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Arthur 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

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  • Early New England Interiors (1878)

Little and Browne

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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 HowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham (the young architect who in 1884 talks the Laphams out of brownstone and black walnut for a Colonial-style house).”

https://backbayhouses.org/arthur-little/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156445332/arthur-little

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