Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr.
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A. W. Longfellow Jr.
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A.W. Longfellow Architect
Biographical InformationAlexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr. (1814-1901), a U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and of Elisabeth Porter. After graduating from Harvard University in 1876, he studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then worked as senior draftsman in Henry Hobson Richardson's office. A.W. Longfellow Archt
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After the death of H. H. Richardson he formed a partnership with Frank Alden and Alfred Harlow, His work was primarily in Boston with the firm Longfellow, Alden & Harlow which designed the Massachusetts City Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He resigned from the firm in 1896 and continued his own practice based in Boston.
Longfellow was a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Athenaeum.
Related Buildings / SitesRelated ProjectsReferences
Floyd, Margaret Henderson. Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh. Chicago: U of Chicago in Association with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1994. Print.
Hale, Herbert D. “Recent Buildings at Harvard University.” The Architectural Review, vol. 8:6, June 1901, pp. 65-75, illus.
O'Gorman, James F. On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1989. Print.