Charles Greely Loring III (October 23, 1881 – September 3, 1966) was an American architect based in

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Loring's father, also named Charles Greely Loring, was a Union Army general during the

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. The younger Loring graduated from

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in 1903 and from the

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in 1906, where he was a member of

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. After briefly working for

Guy Lowell Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870 – February 4, 1927), was an American architect and landscape architect. Biography Born in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, Lowell was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, and a member of B ...

, Loring studied at

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, passing the entrance exam in February 1907. He subsequently worked as an architect, first for

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, then at a firm he co-founded in Boston in 1912, Loring & Leland. Loring & Leland were architects of the Francis Buttrick Library in

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, which is listed on the

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. Loring was also member of

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, a private social club in Boston. The Loring & Leland partnership ended in 1919. In 1915, Loring married Katharine A. Page, the daughter of

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, then the U.S ambassador to the United Kingdom. The wedding ceremony took place at

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in London and was attended by

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, then the

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, and Edward Grey, then the British Ambassador to the U.S. Katharine died in 1956. During World War II, Loring headed a Massachusetts group responsible for camouflaging buildings considered possible aerial bombing targets. Shortly after the war, he was the architect for a new "temporary" terminal building that opened at

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in Boston in May 1946. In 1947, he was the architect for another building at the airport, reworking an existing

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for use as an international terminal. Loring was the architect for various public buildings, including the library in

Beverly, Massachusetts Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, and a suburb of Boston. The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Sho ...

; a

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; and the building now known as Old Somersworth High School in

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, which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Loring remained professionally active as late as 1958, designing a

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building in

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. He died in 1966 in

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, and was survived by three children.

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