Background
Stephen C. Earle was born in 1839 at Leicester, Massachusetts, United States.
(Earle & Fuller)
Earle & Fuller
(Earle & Fisher)
Earle & Fisher
Stephen C. Earle was born in 1839 at Leicester, Massachusetts, United States.
He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before the beginning of the Civil War.
He established an office in Worcester. Later he entered into partnership with James E. Fuller, and under the name of Earle & Fuller designed a number of buildings in the city, among which were the Church of All Saints, and the Clark Building.
Afetr the partnership was ended, Mr. Earle spent a few years (1872-5) in independent practice in Boston. Returning to Worcester, he joined Clellan W. Fisher in organizing the firm of Earle & Fisher in 1891, and during the next twenty years was active in planning and building churches and other public buildings in Worcester and different locations in New England.
Among the firm's most important works in Worcester were the Free Public Library; the Art Museum; Polytechnic Institute; St. Mathews Episcopal church and the Central Congregational Church. Mr. Earle was also identified with the design of a number of public buildings in other cities, namely: Horation Lyons Library at Munson, Mass.; the Slater Memorial Building of the Free Academy at Norwich, Ct.; the Park Congregational Church at Norwich and the Union Congregational Church at New Bedford, Mass.
He participated actively in the old Worcester Chapter, A.I.A. of which he had been a member after 1874, and served two years as Chapter President (1903 and 1904).
