Richard Clipston Sturgis (December 24, 1860 – May 8, 1951), generally known as R. Clipston Sturgis, was an American
architect
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based in
Boston, Massachusetts
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.
Life and career
Richard Clipston Sturgis was born December 24, 1860, in
Boston, Massachusetts
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, to Russell and Susan Codman (Welles) Sturgis. His grandfather was merchant
Russell Sturgis
Russell Sturgis (; October 16, 1836 – February 11, 1909) was an American architect and art critic
of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
Sturgis was born in Baltimore Count ...
and uncles included architect
John Hubbard Sturgis, politician
Henry Parkman Sturgis, author
Julian Sturgis, and novelist
Howard Sturgis. He was educated in the private school of
George Washington Copp Noble in
Dedham, Massachusetts
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First settled by E ...
. He entered
Harvard College
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in 1877, graduating in 1881. From 1881 to 1883, he worked in the office of his uncle,
Sturgis & Brigham. He then sailed to
England
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, where he worked until late 1884 for
London
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architect
Robert William Edis, then engaged on an extension to
Sandringham House
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. After leaving Edis, he spent two years touring Europe. In August 1886, his uncle dissolved his partnership, and the younger Sturgis returned to Boston to help manage the office.
["Richard Clipston Sturgis" in ]
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report of the Class of 1881 of Harvard College
' (Cambridge: Harvard College Class of 1881): 138-139.
In May 1887, John Hubbard Sturgis returned to his native England to manage his father's affairs, with the younger Sturgis left in charge in Boston. In February 1888, his uncle died in England, and the younger Sturgis succeeded to the practice.
[ He was responsible for completing his uncle's unfinished works, including the Church of the Advent and the new building of the ]Boston Athletic Association
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. In May, he formed a partnership with William Robinson Cabot, son of architect Edward Clarke Cabot, known as Sturgis & Cabot. This continued until it was dissolved in May 1895, after which Sturgis continued alone.
In July 1902, he formed a new partnership with George Edward Barton, known as Sturgis & Barton. In addition to a Boston office this firm also had a New York office at Tuxedo Park. This partnership was dissolved after a period of six years. He again was sole proprietor of his firm until 1922, when he reorganized his firm as The Office of R. Clipston Sturgis, with William Stanley Parker, William B. Coffin, William Adams, S. Winthrop St. Clair, and Alanson Hall Sturgis, his nephew, as associates.
Ten years later, in 1932, Sturgis retired. The firm was then reorganized as Sturgis Associates Inc. Parker was head of the new firm, though Sturgis remained associated as a consultant.
Sturgis was regarded as a leader in the architectural profession. In 1891, he was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
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. From 1908 to 1912, he was president of the Boston Society of Architects
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History
On June 20, 1867, approximately 50 archi ...
. In 1913-14, he was first vice president of the American Institute of Architects
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, and president in 1914-15.["Richard Clipston Sturgis" in ]
Fortieth Anniversary Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1881 of Harvard College
' (Cambridge: University Press, 1921): 233. He was also involved in the Society of Arts and Crafts of Boston, and served as its fourth president from 1917 to 1920. Other organizations to which Sturgis belonged include: the Harvard Clubs of Boston
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and New York City
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, the Somerset Club, the Tavern Club, the Union Boat Club, the Loyal Legion, the English-Speaking Union
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, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.[
From 1902 until 1909, Sturgis was a member of the Board of School-house Commissioners of the School-house Department, a department of the Boston city government that had charge of the selection of sites, appointment of architects and supervision of construction of new schools throughout Boston.][
]
Personal life
Sturgis married in 1882 to Esther Mary Ogden of Troy, New York
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.[ They had two sons, one of whom died in infancy, and one daughter. His surviving son, Richard Clipston Sturgis Jr., was born March 17, 1884, at ]Canterbury
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in Kent
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, England
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.[ He followed in his father's footsteps, attending ]Harvard College
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after which he worked for Parker & Thomas in Boston and Howard & Galloway in San Francisco
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before joining his father's office in 1907. He died October 18, 1913, at his parents' home in Boston following a sudden illness. Their daughter, Dorothy Margaret (Sturgis) Harding was born July 28, 1891.[ She was also a designer and was noted in particular for her bookplates.
After retiring from active practice, Sturgis moved to ]Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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, where the family had formerly spent only their summers. The family home, known as Martine Cottage, was bought by Sturgis in 1890. He died there on May 8, 1951, at the age of 90. His wife, Esther Mary, had died November 23, 1935, at Winsley in Wiltshire
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, England
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, while traveling abroad.
His sketchbooks and notebooks are archived in the Boston Athenæum
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.
Architectural works
Perkins School for the Blind
Among Sturgis' most significant commissions was the new campus of the Perkins School for the Blind
Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, was founded in 1829 and is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It has also been known as the Perkins Institution for the Blind.
Perkins manufactures its own Perkins B ...
in Watertown, Massachusetts
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.
Sturgis was asked to design the campus when third director of the school Edward Allen found its current home in Watertown, Massachusetts
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. Sturgis chose the popular style of the time called English Collegiate Gothic when designing the campus. Allen required Sturgis to incorporate a "family-style" cottage system implemented by Samuel Gridley Howe. This cottage system was meant to replicate the idea of a family setting and help teach student independent living skills ( Activities of Daily Life). This cottage style included students of all ages living together in a family like unit with "four teachers, a cook, and a household assistant oversaw 20 students in each cottage". While the structure of cottage style living has somewhat changed from its first implementation at the school, this cottage style of living still exists at Perkins.
Sturgis also considered the unique mobility
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* Geographic mobility, the measure of how populations and goods move over time
* Mobilities, a conte ...
needs of students with visual impairments and designed the building to reflect this.
# He used many right angles to help with orientation. Right angles help students more easily understand cardinal direction at any given time.
# Equidistant corridors: Each side of the building mirrors the other meaning the student can cognitively map one side of the building and then because of their mirroring know the other side of the building as well.
# Stairs on the sides of corridors: To help predictability of where a student can find stairs.
# Sightly tilted walkways: To help the student understand if their straight line of travel has been affected.
# Animal tiles on columns: To serve as a tactile marker of a space aiding in orientation (knowing where one is). Think of it like a sign for someone who is visually impaired- braille was not used at Perkins at this time)
# Rosettes carved into the wood of the seats in the chapel: To again be used as a tactile marker
List of architectural works
* Willard School, Quincy, Massachusetts
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(1889–91)
* Lewis Cabot Estate, Brookline, Massachusetts
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(1894, NRHP 1985, demolished 1995)
* "Petersfield" for John Stewart McLennan
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The son of Hugh McLennan and Isabella Stewart, he was e ...
, Westmount, Nova Scotia (1899, demolished)[Sturgis, Richard Clipston]
" dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950, n. d. Accessed June 25, 2021.
* Sturgis House, Groton School
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, Groton, Massachusetts
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(1899)
* Big Tree Swimming Pool, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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(1900, demolished 1962)[Christopher Hail]
Cambridge Buildings and Architects
2003. Accessed May 21, 2021.
* Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Sydney, Nova Scotia
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(1901, burned 2013)[
* Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John (former), ]Manila
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, Philippines
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(1905–07, destroyed 1945)
* "Rock Ridge" for Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
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Early life
He was the ...
, Tuxedo Park, New York
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(1905)[''Tuxedo Park: The Historic Houses'', ed. Christian R. Sonne and Chiu Yin Hempel (Tuxedo Park: Tuxedo Historical Society, 2007)]
* "Sunny Rock" for Ambrose Monell, Tuxedo Park, New York
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(1905)[
* House for Victor Fremont Lawson, ]Chicago, Illinois
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(1906, demolished 1929)
* First National Bank Building, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1907–08, demolished)
* Franklin Union Building, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1907–08)
* Neighborhood Guild, Peace Dale, Rhode Island (1907–08)
* Public Library of Brookline, Brookline, Massachusetts
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(1909–10)
* Winsor School, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1909–10)
* Perkins School for the Blind
Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, was founded in 1829 and is the oldest school for the blind in the United States. It has also been known as the Perkins Institution for the Blind.
Perkins manufactures its own Perkins B ...
, Watertown, Massachusetts
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(1910–11)[
* Security Trust Company Building, ]Rockland, Maine
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(1911–12, NRHP 1978)
* Restoration of Old North Church
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, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1912–14)[Keith N. Morgan, ''Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston'' (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)]
* Robbins Memorial Town Hall, Arlington, Massachusetts
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Europe ...
(1912)
* Whitinsville Social Library, Whitinsville, Massachusetts
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(1912–13)
* Boston Common Tablet, Boston Common
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, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1913)
* Brimmer School (former), Boston, Massachusetts
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(1914)
* Delta Upsilon Club (former), Cambridge, Massachusetts
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(1914–15)[
* Additions to the ]Massachusetts State House
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, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1914–17)
* Union Congregational Church, East Walpole, Massachusetts (1915)
* Ford Hall, Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts
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(1916–17)
* Proctor High School (former), Proctor, Vermont (1916–17)
* Black Rock Gardens, Bridgeport, Connecticut
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(1918, NRHP 1990)
* Lakeview Village, Bridgeport, Connecticut
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(1918, NRHP 1990)
* Seaside Village, Bridgeport, Connecticut
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(1918, NRHP 1990)
* Wilmot Apartments, Bridgeport, Connecticut
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(1918, NRHP 1990)
* Bird School (former), East Walpole, Massachusetts (1919)
* Watertown Savings Bank Building, Watertown, Massachusetts
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(1921)
* Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Building (former), Boston, Massachusetts
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(1920–22)
* Harold H. Anthony House, Swansea, Massachusetts
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It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, south of Boston, and southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 17,14 ...
(1922, NRHP 1990)
* Restoration of the First Universalist Church (former), Salem, Massachusetts
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(1924)[Bryant F. Tolles Jr., ''Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide'' (Lebanon: University Press of New England, 1983)]
* Vermont Marble Company Office Building, Proctor, Vermont (1924)
* House for William Henry Claflin Jr., Belmont, Massachusetts
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H ...
(1925)
* Amos A. Lawrence School, Brookline, Massachusetts
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(1929–30)
* Charles/MGH station
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, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1931–32, mostly demolished 2004)[
* McCall Junior High School, ]Winchester, Massachusetts
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(1931–32)[
* Watertown Administration Building, ]Watertown, Massachusetts
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(1931–32)
Other works
* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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coat of arms (1904)
* '' Menotomy Hunter'' fountain and grounds, Arlington, Massachusetts
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History
Europe ...
(1911)
* '' Robbins Memorial Flagstaff'', Arlington, Massachusetts
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Europe ...
(1913) Collaborative work with Cyrus Dallin.
* '' Boston Common Tablet'', Boston Common
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, Boston, Massachusetts
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(1913)
Gallery of architectural and design works
Notes
References
* ''Built in Boston: City and Suburb 1800-1950'', Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978
External links
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