Background
Edwin Sherrill Dodge was born in 1874 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States.
Edwin Sherrill Dodge was born in 1874 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States.
He was educated in public schools and at Harvard University and trained in architecture at Boston's M.I.T. and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
After beginning practice in Boston in 1910 his first important commission was the Fire Insurance Company Building at Hartford, Conn., on which he was associated with the firm of Parker, Thomas & Rice between 1919 and 1921. He also collaborated at times with J. W. Ames of Boston in designing a number of collegiate buildings of which the most important were four groups of dormitories and Gymnasium at Smith College, 1921-26; buildings at Bennington (Vermont) College, 1927-29, and dormitories at Radcliffe and Simmons colleges during 1937 and 1938. Independently Mr. Dodge was architect of the Newburyport High School, 1935-37; Bradford Junior College, miscellan¬eous commercial work and many fine homes.
In November 1904, Dodge married art patron and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan, then known as Mable Ganson Evans.