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Charles J. Bateman
Charles J. Bateman (March 4, 1851 – May 3, 1940) was an American architect in practice in Boston from 1876 until his retirement in 1932. He served two terms as city architect of Boston, in 1883–84 and 1888–89. Life and career Charles John Bateman was born March 4, 1851, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated in the Cambridge public schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he took courses in 1868–69 with the class of 1872. He then worked for Boston architects Faulkner & Clarke, spending part of that time in their second office in Chicago, and then worked for architect George Ropes (architect), George Ropes in Boston. In 1876 Bateman left Ropes to open his own office."Bateman, Charles J." in Boston of To-day' (Boston: Post Publishing Company, 1892): 139-140. Bateman was an Irish Catholic and a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, and both of these attributes would impact his architectural career. As a well-connected member of the loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. It is one of two de jure county seats of Middlesex County, although the county's executive government was abolished in 1997. Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lesley University, and Hult International Business School are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College before it merged with Harvard. Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet" owing to the high concentration of successful startups that have emerged in the vicinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
