WILLIAM C. RICHARDSON

Background

William C. Richardson was born in 1854 at Concord, New Hampshire, United States.

Education

He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he was nineteen, and following graduation in Architecture in 1876, spent a year of travel and supplementary study in Europe.

Career

In Boston Mr. Richardson was first employed as a draftsman with firms in the city, then in 1881 began practice in association with Henry H. Hartwell and the late James Driver. In the years that followed his firm designed various types of public buildings in Boston and elsewhere in the state, including the Youth’s Companion Building and the Normal Art School in Boston; Christ Church in Andover; First Church, Plymouth; Town Hall at Ware, c.1885; the old Academy of Music and the Central Congregational Church in Fall River; Gymnasium and Laboratory at Thayer Academy, Braintree, also High Schools in Springfield, Cambridge and Dorchester, Mass.

After Mr. Hartwell's death in 1919 and the subsequent decease of Mr. Driver in 1922, Mr. Richardson carried on work under the name of Hartwell & Richardson with an office in the Little Building, Boston, until 1930.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Normal Art School in Boston

  • Christ Church in Andover

Connections

coworker:

Henry H. Hartwell

In 1881 Mr. Richardson began practice in association with Henry H. Hartwell and the late James Driver.

coworker:

James Driver

In 1881 Mr. Richardson began practice in association with Henry H. Hartwell and the late James Driver.