page_title: Clarke & Howe
section_title: Clarke & Howe, 1901-1907
hierarchical_section_title: Clarke & Howe / Architectural Works / Clarke & Howe, 1901-1907
caption_attribution_description: English: Brown University - Lincoln Field Building
context_page_description: Clarke & Howe was an American architectural firm from Providence, Rhode Island that was active from 1893 to 1928.
  The firm was established in 1893 as Clarke & Spaulding, with Prescott O. Clarke and Arthur R. Spaulding. Wallis E. Howe was added as a partner in 1901, with the firm becoming Clarke, Spaulding & Howe. This association was short-lived, as Spaulding retired from architecture later that year. From 1907 to 1913 the firm was known as Clarke, Howe & Homer, with Eleazer B. Homer, a former MIT professor of architecture. Clarke & Howe was dissolved upon Clarke's retirement in 1928, with Howe continuing the practice as Howe & Church.
context_section_description: Before 1903, Clarke & Howe were known primarily for their residential designs.  This changed that year, when they won the commission for the U. S. Federal Building on Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence.  
  Construction began on this major Beaux-Arts building in 1904, and it was completed four years later in 1908.  The design competition attracted ten entries, from New England and New York, but this design by a local firm was selected unanimously.  Clarke & Howe was assisted in the design by Harvey Wiley Corbett, who had been working in their office after returning from Europe.
  Also in 1903, the firm completed two other non-residential designs.  The first of these was the Portsmouth Savings Bank in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Begun in 1902, this was actually an overhaul of a much earlier bank building, and the resulting design was typical of temple-front twentieth century banks.  The other was for the Engineering Building at Brown University.  Unlike the other two buildings, this is a plainer Colonial Revival building.  Today, known as the Lincoln Field Building, it is home to the department of geological science.
  They also designed many residences during this period, most prominent of which are a 1903 house at 102 Prospect Street in Providence, built for Dr. Henry A. Whitmarsh, and another at 140 Blackstone Boulevard for Charles D. Dunlop in 1907-08.
  Other designs include:
  Farm Group, The Oaks (R. H. I. Goddard estate), Potowomut, RI (1902) - Demolished.
  Richard W. Comstock, Jr. House, 203 Governor St., Providence, RI (1905)
  H. Anthony Dyer House, 170 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, RI (1906) - Altered.
caption: Engineering Building, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1903)
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