Background
He was born in 1867 in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States.
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Town Halls at Needham and Weston
(Work of Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow.)
Work of Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow.
HENRY FORBES BIGELOW
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He received a preparatory education at St. Mark's School at Southboro. He began the study of architecture in Boston at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and after he was graduated left for a year of travel and supplementary study in Europe.
Career
He received an invitation to return to the U. S. to design new buildings at St. Mark's School, and upon his return to Boston in 1888, having no office of his own, arranged to take his commission into the office of Winslow & Wetherell. Later, following the completion of the Southboro work Mr. Bigelow became a partner in the firm of Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, and in 1900, following the death of both of the original members of the firm, took Philip Wadsworth into partnership, continuing that association until later years when the Messrs. Hubbard and Smith became members of the new organization.
Among his early works in Boston, designed under the firm name of Winslow, Wetherell & Bigelow, were: Hotel Touraine and the new Parker House; Tremont Building; Board of Trade Building, 1903; Shreve, Cramp 6 Low’s store on Tremont St.; Phillips Building; Steinert Building; the Oliver Ditson Building; Kidder, Peabody & Company offices; Kimball Building and the Walker Building. Mr. Bigelow was also identified with other build¬ings, notable examples being: the Annex to the Jordan 6 Marsh Store; Shawmut National Bank Building; additions to the Boston Athenaeum (in association with Philip Wadsworth); and the Office Building, Power House and other buildings for the Edison Electric Illuminating Company—all in Boston; elsewhere, the Library at Radcliff College, Cambridge; Delta Psi Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Antiquarian Society Building, Worcester; Town Halls at Needham and Weston. Independently he designed his own house on Chestnut Street, Boston, and apartment houses at 10 Otis Place, 1928, and 116 Charles Street. He was also the architect of several fine city and country houses for such well-known clients as Eben Draper at Hopedale, Philip Sears at Brookline, Albert Bigelow at Brookline, Thomas Gannett at Manchester, and Bayard Tuckerman at Hamilton. In the opinion of one of his contemporaries, Mr. Bigelow probably contributed more to the creation of charming and distinguished house interiors than any one person of his time
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Membership
Elected in 1901 an Associate of the Boston Society of Architects, he had long been active in the affairs of the Society, and in 1905 was raised to Institute Fellowship. He served as a Trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was a member of the Boston Art Commission and other societies.
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