Joseph Ladd Neal (1867–?) was an American architect who designed

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Shingle Style The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture. In the shingle style, Engli ...

and

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

buildings. Born in

Wiscasset, Maine Wiscasset is a New England town, town in and the county seat, seat of Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The municipality is located in the state of Maine's Mid Coast region. The population was 3,742 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 ...

, the son of a hardware merchant, he apprenticed under

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architect

Charles Howard Walker Charles Howard Walker (January 9, 1857 – April 12, 1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was associated with the architecture department at the Massachusetts I ...

. He worked for

Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge was a successful American architectural firm based in Boston. As the successor to the studio of Henry Hobson Richardson, they completed his unfinished work before developing their own practice, and had extensive commissi ...

in Boston and

James Renwick Jr. James Renwick Jr. (November 11, 1818 – June 23, 1895) was an American architect known for designing churches and museums. He designed the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., and St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan), St. Patric ...

in New York City, before settling in

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about 1892. In 1893 he established a partnership with S. Alfred Hopkins, that lasted a year. A partnership with George M. Rowland lasted from 1902 to 1906. Four of his works –

Lithgow Public Library The Lithgow Public Library is the public library of Augusta, Maine. Established in 1896, and expanded in 1979 and 2016, it holds about 67,000 books. History The library is named for Llewellyn Lithgow, an Augusta merchant, who bequest, bequeat ...

, Merrill Memorial Library,

College Hill Station College Hill station was a former train station located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States. The structure was designed by architect Joseph Ladd Neal and built by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad to help transport goods and pass ...

, Small Point Club – are listed on the

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Selected works

* Lithgow Library and Reading Room, Augusta, Maine, 1894–96, with S. Alfred Hopkins. Neal & Hopkins won the commission in a national design competition with 65 submissions. *First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, c. 1895. *Small Point Club, Small Point, Maine, 1895-97. *Morrill Memorial Library,

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, 1897-98. A near-replica of Neal's Lithgow Library. *Alterations to Beaver County Courthouse,

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, 1901. *James Lyall Stuart house,

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, c. 1905, with George M. Rowland."Homes with a History"
from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. *

(

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE; ), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875. Company headquarters were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The line connected Pittsburgh in the east with Youngstown, Ohio, in the ...

Geneva College Geneva College is a private Christian college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1848 in Northwood, Ohio, the college moved to its present location in 1880. It enrolls about 1,400 undergraduates in over 30 majors, as wel ...

, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1910, John Abiel Atwood, engineer. File:The Lithgow Library, Augusta, ME.jpg,

, Augusta, Maine (1894–96). File:1899 Norwood public library Massachusetts.png, Merrill Memorial Library, Norwood, Massachusetts (1897–98). File:College hill station.JPG,

, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (1910).

References

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