Background
Albert Cobb was born in 1868 in Boston, United States.
Albert Cobb was born in 1868 in Boston, United States.
A graduate of Tufts College (West Medford, Mass.), he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He continued his training for a few years in the Boston office of Peabody & Stearns. Later he secured a position on the drafting force of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, and while in the firm's employ assisted in preparing plans for the new Public Library in Chicago. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Cobb joined the late John Calvin Stevens in a partnership which was maintained for five years during which Stevens & Cobb planned buildings which were erected both in Boston and in Maine. He also collaborated with Mr. Stevens in the preparation of a book entitled 'Examples of American Domestic Architecture," published with illustrations in 1889.
Early in the nineties Mr. Cobb moved to Springfield to open an office, following Mr. Stevens' withdrawal from the firm. In the latter city he established a joint office with Luther Greenleaf and under the firm name of Greenleaf 6 Cobb carried on an active practice for a number of years. During that period his most important works included the Ames Memorial School, Ghapman School at Boston, and exterior of the Hotel' Kimball at Springfield. In more recent years he was connected with the preparation of plans for a new Federal Building in Springfield, the City Police Station, Memorial Station, and various other works in the city.