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Little & Browne
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PartnersArthur Little; Herbert W. C. Browne; George A. Moore; Lester S. Couch
FoundersArthur Little; Herbert W. C. Browne
Founded1890
Dissolved1939
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
House for Larz Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia, 1902-05.

Little & Browne, 1890-1892, 1897-1939

Little, Browne & Moore, 1892-1897

From anonymous in The Brickbuilder, 1899: "Surely, no one is able to more successfully treat the colonial style than this firm."[1]

From anonymous in The Architectural Review of Boston, 1903:

"In our own Colonial style, the American adaptation of Georgian, but as distinct from that as the English is distinct from the French of the same date, we have, first, almost no record of the architects, and such as they were, they had nothing like the opportunities which one has now. They built, however, with taste and judgment, with a nice sense of proportion, with a wise discrimination as to expenditure, which have given us buildings in every way admirable. With these examples before us, with every advantage of education, with a strong popular sentiment for the character of the work associated with the eighteenth century, there is not one in ten, not one in a hundred—of the buildings erected on so-called Colonial lines which have the modest charm of those old houses, public or private—which look like the real thing. The good ones are so rare that they stand out as shining examples. Messrs. Little & Browne have, in a number of cases, accomplished the feat, and have given us buildings, not replicas, but reflections, as it were, of the very mood and temper of the time which produced the old house."[2]

— Anonymous, 1902.

Arthur Little was born November 29, 1852 in Boston to James Lovell Little and Julia Augusta (Cook) Little. He was educated at the Chauncy Hall School in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1875. He studied in Europe and worked for Peabody & Stearns before opening his own office in 1879.

In 1890 Little built his own house at 2 Raleigh Street in Boston. After his marriage he lived in various houses on Commonwealth Avenue.

Architectural works

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  1. ^ "The Boston Architectural Exhibition," Brickbuilder 8, no. 6 (June 1899): 113-115.
  2. ^ Architectural Review 10, no. 5 (May 1903): 56-57.
  3. ^ Historic Building Detail: BKL.1169
  4. ^ Historic Building Detail: CAM.67
  5. ^ Peabody Institute NRHP Registration Form (1997)
  6. ^ Historic Building Detail: LYN.623
  7. ^ Brandegee Estate NRHP Registration Form (1985)
  8. ^ Historic Building Detail: BKL.1471
  9. ^ Richard B. Trask, Danvers (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002)
  10. ^ 190 Beacon
  11. ^ Historic Building Detail: BEV.747
  12. ^ Historic Other Detail: BEV.9010
  13. ^ 118 Beacon
  14. ^ Historic Building Detail: BEV.1042
  15. ^ a b Bryant F. Tolles Jr. and Carolyn K. Tolles, Architecture in Salem (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983)
  16. ^ "SBD.38", mhc-macris.net, Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d.
  17. ^ Knollwood NRHP Registration Form (1980)


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