Background
Henry H. Kendall was born in 1855 at New Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
Henry H. Kendall was born in 1855 at New Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
He was educated in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating at the age of twenty.
He gained valuable experience in the employ of one of Bostons leading architects, William G. Preston. In 1879 Mr. Kendall was Assistant to the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department in Washington, and for a decade served in that position. Returning to Boston he practiced briefly in successive partnerships under the names of Lord & Kendall and Kendall & Stevens prior to 1900, and in that year joined Bertram E.Taylor in organizing the firm of which he remained a member the rest of his life.
Early in the century the partners established a reputation in designing large modem hospitals, several of which were in Boston. Among these were the City Hospital; Corey Hill Hospital; Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, all erected prior to Mr. Taylor’s decease. The commissions received by the firm during the same period were the New Hampshire Hospital for the insane at Westboro, and the Newton City Hospital. During a later period Mr. Kendall was identified with the design of the Boston Hospital Relief Station in Haymarket Square.
Member emeritus of the Boston Society of Architects, A.I.A.