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Charles P. Hartshorn (1833-1880) was an American architect practicing in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a popular designer there in the decade immediately following the Civil War.
Life
Hartshorn was born in 1833 in Norfolk, Virginia, to parents of Rhode Island ancestry. When he was very young, his parents moved back north to Providence. As a young man, he decided to become an architect. He entered the office of Tallman & Bucklin, then Providence's leading architects. When designer Thomas A. Tefft left the firm in 1851, Hartshorn continued his education with him. After Tefft's death, Hartshorn set out on his own. In 1873 he partnered with Charles F. Wilcox. Hartshorn & Wilcox lasted until the end of 1879, briefly before Hartshorn's death in 1880.
In 1865 he was married to Helen Almira Stone, who died in 1897. The two had a single daughter.
At the time of his death, he was secretary of the Rhode Island Chapter of the AIA.