Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was a successful architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, operating between 1886 and 1915, with extensive commissions in monumental civic, religious, and collegiate architecture in the spirit and style of Henry Hobson Richardson.
Charles Hercules Rutan
Image: Stanford University Main Quad 7 June 2009
Image: Bell Telephone Building in 1889 (St. Louis, Missouri)
Image: Hartford Union Station 1913 postcard
Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture".
Detail from portrait by Hubert von Herkomer
The Thomas Crane Public Library (Quincy, Massachusetts), with Japanese inspired eyelid dormers in the roof on each side of the entrance
The Old Colony station in North Easton, Massachusetts, illustrates Richardson's use of Japanese architectural concepts
Detail from Old Colony Railroad Station showing a dragon carved in the beam of a glazed Syrian arch