George Albert Clough (May 27, 1843 – December 30, 1910) was an architect working in

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in the late 19th-century. He designed the

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, and numerous other buildings in the city and around New England. Clough served as the first City Architect of Boston from 1876 to 1883.

Life and career

George Albert Clough was born May 27, 1843, in

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. He attended the Blue Hill Academy and worked as a draftsman for his father, the shipbuilder Asa Clough. He moved to Boston in 1863, entering the firm of Snell & Gregerson as a student. He remained with Snell until 1869, when he established his own practice."George A. Clough," in
Massachusetts of To-day: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
', ed. Daniel P. Toomey and Thomas C. Quinn (Boston: Columbia Publishing Company, 1892): 230. In 1876 he was elected City Architect of Boston, the first person to hold the office. He continued in that position until 1883, when he was replaced by Charles J. Bateman. He was awarded his largest commission, the

, in competition two years later in 1885. This building was completed in 1893, largely to Clough's design but with modifications he disapproved of. He was a private practitioner until 1901, when he formed a partnership with Herbert L. Wardner. Clough & Wardner operated until Clough's death in 1910. Wardner continued to practice on his own in Boston until 1915, when he moved to

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, moving again to

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, in 1919, where he died in 1939.

Personal life

In 1876 Clough married Amelia M. Hinckley of

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, the sister of Lyman G. Hinckley. They had three children. Clough died December 30, 1910, at home in

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, at the age of 67.

Legacy

Historian

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described him as "a competent but not very inspired practitioner." A number of Clough's projects have been listed on the United States

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Architectural works

* Gaston Grammar School, City Point, South Boston, 1873 *

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, Dorchester, Boston, 1874 * Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse, E end of Framingham Reservoir No. 1, off Winter St. N of Long Ave.

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, 1876 * Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse, SE end of Framingham Reservoir No. 3, off MA 9/30

, 1876 * English High and Latin School, Montgomery St., Boston, 1877 * Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse, Between Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2, W of jct. of Winter and Fountain Sts.

, 1877 * Marcella Street Home, Boston, 1880 * Prince School, corner Newbury St. and Exeter St., Boston, 1881 *

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, restored by Clough 1881-1882 *

Dillaway School The Dillaway School is an historic school at 16-20 Kenilworth Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1882 to a design by George Albert Clough, the city's first official architect, and is his only surviving school design in the ...

, Boston, 1882 * Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex, Dorchester, Boston, 1883 * Goddard Hall,

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, Medford, Massachusetts, 1883 *

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, Westborough, Massachusetts, c.1885, NRHP-listed *

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, 125 South St. (formerly 'Ideal Lodge')

, 1884 * B.M.C. Durfee High School building, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1886 *

Buck Memorial Library The Buck Memorial Library is the public library of Bucksport, Maine. It is located at 47 Maine Street in the center of the town, in an architecturally distinguished Gothic Revival stone structure designed by George A. Clough and built in 1887. ...

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, 1887 * Bridge Academy, ME 127 and ME 197

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, 1890 * St. Mark's Methodist Church, 90 Park St.

, 1892 * Curtis Hall, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1893 *

, Pemberton Square, Boston, 1893 * New England Historic Genealogical Society building extension, Somerset St., Boston, 1894 * William Hayes Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy, Maine, 1894 * Church of the Gate of Heaven, South Boston, c.1896 *

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, 185 South St.

1900 remodeling. * Rockland Public Library, Rockland, Maine, 1903Stimpson. Rockland, Rockport and Camden. New England Magazine, Sept. 1904 * Vinalhaven Public Library, Carver St.

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, 1906 * Bridgewater state workhouse * Westboro insane asylum * Northampton insane asylum * Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass *

Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District The Sudbury Aqueduct is an aqueduct in Massachusetts. It runs for from Farm Pond at Waverly Street in Framingham to Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood. A later built extension main runs from the Farm Pond gate ...

, along Sudbury Aqueduct from Farm Pond at Waverly St. to Chestnut Hill Reservoir

Gallery

OldSuffolkCMaCourt.JPG,

, Pemberton Square, Boston BMC_Durfee_High_School.jpg, B.M.C. Durfee High School,

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Dillaway School.jpg, Dillaway School, Boston Lyman-hall-old.jpg,

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, Boston Fogg_Memorial_Building,_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg, Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine (1894) BostonMA CalfPasturePumpingStationComplex.jpg, Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex, Dorchester, Boston, in 2010 FraminghamMA ReservoirNumberTwoGatehouse.jpg, Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse,

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