Harrison Henry Atwood (August 26, 1863 – October 22, 1954) was an American architect and politician who represented Boston in the

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from 1895 to 1897 and for several nonconsecutive terms in the

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. He was a member of the Republican Party but was also supported by the

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during his later terms in the Massachusetts House.

Biography

Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended public schools in

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. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston. Atwood was elected as a

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to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). Atwood defeated incumbent Democrat

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. He was a member of the Republican State Committee. Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He resumed his former profession in Boston. From 1888 to 1894 he was a member of and secretary to the Boston Republican City Committee. From 1889 to 1890 he was City Architect of Boston, designing the Bowditch School, the

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, and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station, all on the

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. Atwood also designed several churches for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. He was again a member of the

in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and then resumed his work as an architect in

. In April 1938, he moved to

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Death

Atwood died in

on October 22, 1954 and was interred in

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in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Boston.

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places designed by H.H. Atwood

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Official Congressional Directory
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Biography

Death

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places designed by H.H. Atwood

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