Biography: Joseph Randolph Coolidge Jr. was an architect active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1862 and received his degree from Harvard in 1883. He later studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He was a draughtsman for the firm Andrews and Jaques 1888 and formed a partnership with Vernon A. Wright in 1894. He later formed a partnership with Harry J. Carlson, known as Coolidge & Carlson in 1901. The firm was active until his death in 1928.