Background
Norman M. Isham was born in 1864 at Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Norman M. Isham was born in 1864 at Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
He completed ms education at Brown University.
Beginning architectural study at an early age he entered the Providence office of Alpheus Morse, and after further train¬ing and experience acquired under the late Alfred Morse, established his own office in 1892. During intermittent periods he taught at Brown University, and at the Rhode Island School of Design lectured on architectural history.
Among his most successful restorations was the old City Hall at Newport, afterward occupied by the Chamber of Commerce. He also served as Consulting Architect on the Colonial rooms of the American Wing at the New York Metropolitan Museum, 1922-24, and in the same capacity on work at the Delaware State House, 1930-33. As an author of two books regarded as classics in architecture, “Early Knode Island Houses and “Early Connecticut Houses.“
A Fellow of the A. I. A. after 1913, and a member of several Historic Societies.