George Albert Clough

George Albert Clough (May 27, 1843 – December 30, 1910) was an architect working in Boston in the late 19th-century. He designed the Suffolk County Courthouse in Pemberton Square, and numerous other buildings in the city and around New England. Clough served as the first City Architect of Boston from 1876 to 1883.
Life and career
George Albert Clough was born May 27, 1843, in Blue Hill, Maine. He attended the Blue Hill Academy and worked as a draftsman for his father, the shipbuilder Asa Clough. He moved to Boston in 1863, entering the firm of Snell & Gregerson as a student. He remained with Snell until 1869, when he established his own practice. In 1876 he was elected City Architect of Boston, the first person to hold the office. He continued in that position until 1883, when he was replaced by Charles J. Bateman. He was awarded his largest commission, the Suffolk County Courthouse, in competition two years later in 1885. This building was completed in 1893, largely to Clough's design but with modifications he disapproved of. He was a private practitioner until 1901, when he formed a partnership with Herbert L. Wardner. Clough & Wardner operated until Clough's death in 1910.
Wardner continued to practice on his own in Boston until 1915, when he moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, moving again to Akron, Ohio, in 1919, where he died in 1939.
Personal life
In 1876 Clough married Amelia M. Hinckley of Thetford, Vermont, the sister of Lyman G. Hinckley. They had three children.
Clough died December 30, 1910, at home in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 67.
Legacy
Historian Walter Muir Whitehill described him as "a competent but not very inspired practitioner."
A number of Clough's projects have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.
Architectural works
Gaston Grammar School, City Point, South Boston, 1873
Fields Corner Municipal Building, Dorchester, Boston, 1874
Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse, E end of Framingham Reservoir No. 1, off Winter St. N of Long Ave. Framingham, Massachusetts, 1876
Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse, SE end of Framingham Reservoir No. 3, off MA 9/30 Framingham, Massachusetts, 1876
English High and Latin School, Montgomery St., Boston, 1877
Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse, Between Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2, W of jct. of Winter and Fountain Sts. Framingham, Massachusetts, 1877
Marcella Street Home, Boston, 1880
Prince School, corner Newbury St. and Exeter St., Boston, 1881
Old State House (Boston, Massachusetts), restored by Clough 1881-1882
Dillaway School, Boston, 1882
Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex, Dorchester, Boston, 1883
Goddard Hall, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1883
Lyman School for Boys, Westborough, Massachusetts, c.1885, NRHP-listed
Barncastle, 125 South St. (formerly 'Ideal Lodge') Blue Hill, Maine, 1884
B.M.C. Durfee High School building, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1886
Buck Memorial Library, Bucksport, Maine, 1887
Bridge Academy, ME 127 and ME 197 Dresden, Maine, 1890
St. Mark's Methodist Church, 90 Park St. Brookline, Massachusetts, 1892
Curtis Hall, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1893
Suffolk County Courthouse, Pemberton Square, Boston, 1893
New England Historic Genealogical Society building extension, Somerset St., Boston, 1894
William Hayes Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy, Maine, 1894
Church of the Gate of Heaven, South Boston, c.1896
Parker House, 185 South St. Blue Hill, Maine 1900 remodeling.
Rockland Public Library, Rockland, Maine, 1903
Vinalhaven Public Library, Carver St. Vinalhaven, Maine, 1906
Bridgewater state workhouse
Westboro insane asylum
Northampton insane asylum
Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass
Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District, along Sudbury Aqueduct from Farm Pond at Waverly St. to Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Gallery
Notes
References
Further reading
Massachusetts of today: a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. Columbia publishing company, 1892.
Samuel Atkins Eliot, ed. "George Albert Clough." Biographical history of Massachusetts: biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state, Volume 3. Boston: Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1911
External links
WorldCat
Flickr. Photo of Prince School building, Boston, 2005
Flickr. Photo of Calf Pasture Pumping Station building, Boston, 2003
Flickr. Photo of Calf Pasture Pumping Station building, Boston, 2009
Flickr. Photo of Calf Pasture Pumping Station building, Boston, 2009
Flickr. Photo of Calf Pasture Pumping Station building, Boston, 2009
1843 births
1910 deaths
Architects from Boston
19th century in Boston
George A. Clough buildings
People from Blue Hill, Maine