Hartwell & Swasey

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Hartwell & Swasey was a short-lived 19th-century architectural firm in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] The partnership between Henry Walker Hartwell (1833-1919) and Albert E. Swasey, Jr. lasted from the late-1860s to 1877, when Swasey went on his own. [2] In 1881, Hartwell formed a partnership with William Cummings Richardson Hartwell and Richardson that lasted until his death.

Several of Hartwell & Swasey's buildings were designed in Ruskinian Gothic Revival style, featuring polychrome brick and carved stone details. A number of the firm's works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [3] [4]

Selected works

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References

  1. Richardson, Henry Hobson (1972). Robert Bell Rettig (ed.). Architecture of H.H. Richardson and his contemporaries in Boston and vicinity. Society of Architectural Historians. p. 12.
  2. James F. O'Gorman, On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-century Boston Architects (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), p.111.
  3. Fall River MRA
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.