Education
He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and established himself in New York City before the age of 20.
He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and established himself in New York City before the age of 20.
These were all projects funded by Andrew Carnegie. As associates, Hale and Morse both collaborated with architects Parker & Thomas on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Building (1904-1906) in Baltimore, Maryland. While working in Camden and Baltimore, the pair kept an office in the Drexel Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On his own, he designed a laboratory building at Yale University, and Tudor-style houses in New Rochelle, New York for mural artist Frederick Dana Marsh and cartoonist Clare Briggs.
He designed a Young Men's Christian Association in Camden, New Jersey. He was noted in particular for his work on Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia, which is partly a reconstruction of a Tudor manor shipped over from Warwickshire, England.
Morse was hired in 1925 to visit England and study other manors, travelling around the English countryside and surveying properties such as Wormleighton Manor, fusing together different ideas into the final reconstruction in Virginia. He also supervised the relocation of Agecroft Hall, which was re-erected next door to Virginia House.
He died in 1934.