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Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. (
August 18,
1854,
Portland, Maine –
February 16,
1934, Portland) was an
American architect and nephew of poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
He was the son of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Sr. (1814-1901), a
U.S. Coast Survey topographer, and of Elisabeth Porter. After graduating from
Harvard University in 1876, he studied architecture at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the
École des Beaux-Arts in
Paris, then worked as senior draftsman in
Henry Hobson Richardson's office.
After Richardson's death in 1886, Longfellow teamed up with
Frank Ellis Alden (1859-1908) and
Alfred Branch Harlow (1857-1927), and founded the firm of Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, with offices in
Boston and
Pittsburgh. The firm designed the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the
City Hall in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the
Hunnewell building at the
Arnold Arboretum in Boston.
Longfellow later moved to Boston, where he worked in association with his brother,
William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1836-1913). He designed several structures around Harvard, including the
Brattle Theatre, the
Phillips Brooks House, the
Semitic Museum, the Bertram and Eliot Halls at
Radcliffe College, and chemical laboratories. He also designed the
Washington Street Elevated, the
Theodore Parker Church in
West Roxbury, and a
Maine Historical Society library building.
He was one of the founders of the
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, active in the Marine Museum of the
Bostonian Society, and a trustee of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the
Boston Athenæum.
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