Richard Clipston Sturgis, generally known as R. Clipston Sturgis, was an American architect based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Willard School, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1889-91.
House for Lewis Cabot, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1894.
Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John, Manila, Philippines, 1905-07.
Franklin Union Building, Boston, Massachusetts, 1907-08.
Russell Sturgis was a Boston merchant active in the China trade, and later head of Baring Brothers in London.
Richard Clipston Sturgis
…Richard Clipston Sturgis was born December 24, 1860, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Russell and Susan Codman (Welles) Sturgis. His grandfather was merchant Russell Sturgis and uncles included architect John Hubbard Sturgis, politician Henry Parkman Sturgis, author Julian Sturgis, and novelist Howard Sturgis. He was educated…
Painted by Anna Lea Merritt
Russell and Sturgis's former office along the Pasig River in Manila, 1900.