Background
J. Lovell Little was born in 1871 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
J. Lovell Little was born in 1871 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
A graduate of Harvard in 1897, his architectural training was acquired at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Beginning work as draftsman in the Boston office of Guy Lowell, Mr. Little left there early in the 1900's to practice jointly with James Purdon, and in that association designed the Psi Delta Club at Cambridge , and the Church of the Disciples in Boston.
After 1915 when the firm of Little & Russell was organized, he devoted much of his time to residential work, also designed a charming group of civic buildings at Petersborough, N. H. and the office building at 20 Newbury Street, Boston, in which the firm opened offices.
He was a former president of the Boston Society of Architects.