Background
Edward F. Stevens was born in 1860 at Dunstable, Massachusetts, United States.
Edward F. Stevens was born in 1860 at Dunstable, Massachusetts, United States.
In 1883 he was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a special student in Architecture.
He gained training and experienced while employed in successive periods with Boston firms, and before starting practice in the city, spent a year or longer in McKim, Mead & White's New York office.
Mr. Stevens was thirty years of age when he formed a partnership with Henry R. Kendall and Bertram Taylor. Under the firm name of Kendall, Stevens & Taylor he carried on work until the death of Mr. Taylor in 1909, when the firm was successively re-organized as Kendall, Stevens & Lee, Stevens & Lee, and finally Stevens, Curtin, Mason & Riley. With his associates he attained national recognition as a specialist in hospital work. Their outstanding achievements in that field of design include numerous large and modern city hospitals, state hospitals in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, and over-seas hospitals for the U. S. Army during the first World War.
Among the buildings with which Mr. Stevens was particularly identified should be mentioned the General Hospital at New Britain, Conn., Lying-in Hospital, Providence, R. Iā Ross Pavilion at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada; Springfield (Mass.) City Hospital, General Hospital in Buffalo, N. Y., and the Ohio Valley General Hospital, Wheeling. West Virginia. In addition to professional practice Mr. Stevens was the author of The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century a standard work on that subject, published in 1910, with revised editions through 1927.