ALLEN HOWARD COX

Background

Allen Howard Cox was born in 1873 at South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

Education

He was educated in schools at Holyoke and at the Williston Academy, later studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Career

In 1904 Mr. Cox established an office in Boston in partnership with the late William E. Putnam, and for more than thirty years the firm maintained an active practice, designing a number of both public and educational buildings of architectural merit. Among its best known works should be cited the Jones Library and the Lord Jeffrey Inn at Amherst, Mass.; nine Fraternity Houses at Amherst College, and at Mount Holyoke College the Skinner Citation and the Clapp Science Buildings, also dormitories on the campus erected in later years. In Boston, Putnam & Cox were architects of the American Unitarian Association Building, additions to the Bellevue Hotel on Beacon Hill, the Copley Theatre and a number of Apartment Houses on Stuart Street. A resident of Cambridge for many years, Mr. Cox spent much of his time at his country home in Granby, Mass.

Works

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• Other Work

  • American Unitarian Association Building

    (Designed by the firm Putnam & Cox)

  • Lord Jeffrey Inn at Amherst, Massachusetts

Membership

A member of the Boston Society of Architects, A.I.A., since 1915.

Connections

coworker:

William E. Putnam

In 1904 Mr. Cox established an office in Boston in partnership with William E. Putnam.

coworker:

Nathaniel Saltonstall

Nathaniel Saltonstall became a partner of the firm Putnam & Cox