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Henry Forbes Bigelow

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Name
  
Henry Bigelow

Role
  
Architect


Died
  
June 20, 1907

Structures
  
Boston Athenaeum

Henry Forbes Bigelow Salon Henry Forbes Bigelow House Boston Mass 1916 Lithograph

Born
  
May 12, 1867 (
1867-05-12
)

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Henry Forbes Bigelow (1867 – 1929) was a Bostonian architect in the firm Bigelow and Wadsworth. He became a partner in the firm in 1898.

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Biography

Bigelow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Nelson Bigelow (October 6, 1839 – January 15, 1907) and Clarissa Nichols (Forbes) Bigelow. On October 14, 1896, he married Eliza Frothingham Davis, (January 17, 1871 – June 20, 1907), and then remarried Susan Thayer (born October 1, 1885) on June 1, 1912 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. His children by the first marriage were Henry Davis, born Boston, Massachusetts, November 4, 1897; Edward Livingston, born Boston, April 19, 1899; Chandler, born Milton, Massachusetts, July 21, 1900; and Nelson, born Milton, July 21, 1900. His child by the second marriage was Eugen Thayer, born Boston, March 19, 1913.

It appears that Bigelow attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as issue no. 2 of its Architectural Review included designs for a fountain by Henry Forbes Bigelow and W. Proctor, Jr., as well as a design for opera boxes by Henry F. Bigelow.

Works by Bigelow

  • Gilbertsville, New York's "The Gilbert Block" of 3, 6 and 9 Commercial Street within the Historic District. The graceful and period revival Tudor architecture was constructed between 1893-1895 to replace the earlier commercial block destroyed by fire. The building are extant today and still used for commercial purposes.
  • In 1887 fellow Boston architect William Ralph Emerson created the Romanesque residence Tianderah in the same very small Update New York village.

    • References

    Henry Forbes Bigelow Wikipedia
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