Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (later Alden & Harlow), of Boston, Massachusetts, and

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, Margaret Henderson Floyd, ''Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh''.

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with

Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 to support the preservation of historic buildings and neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. In 1966, PHLF established the Revolving Fund for ...

, Chicago and Pittsburgh, 1st edition (September 1, 1994). ) was the architectural firm of

Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. (August 18, 1854, Portland, Maine – February 16, 1934, Portland) was an American architect and nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Biography Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. was the son of Alexan ...

(1854–1934), Frank Ellis Alden (1859–1908), and Alfred Branch Harlow (1857–1927). The firm, successors to H. H. Richardson, continued to provide structures in the

Romanesque revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

style established by Richardson that is often referred to as

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. Officially, the firm was Longfellow & Harlow from 1886 until March 1887, with Alden participating as its agent. Then, it was Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, until 1896, when it became Alden & Harlow. The split with Longfellow is described as amicable on page 62 of Margaret Henderson Floyd's book about the firm, and it had more to do with the fact that Longfellow was in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

and Alden & Harlow had relocated to

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and were managing their firm there due to the number of commissions they received. After Alden died, Harlow practiced with different partners in Pittsburgh until his death. Longfellow continued to practice in Boston until his death. The architects Frederick G. Scheibler Jr.,

William L. Steele William LaBarthe Steele (May 2, 1875 – March 4, 1949) was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois. He is considered a principal member of the Prairie School Architectural Movement during the early 20th century. Career After graduating f ...

, and Henry M. Seaver trained in the firm's office. Howard K. Jones was the chief

draftsman A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman or drafting technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or plans for ...

for the Alden & Harlow office. According to Floyd, "other young draftsmen in the office played roles that are still for the most part unknown". The best documented picture is for the firm's largest commission: the major Carnegie Institute expansion of 1899-1907. Here Jones played a key role, assisted by Steele, Richard Hooker, and John Henry Craner.

Selected commissions

Longfellow, Alden & Harlow

* Music Building at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

(1884) * Sunnyledge (former McClelland House), 5124 Fifth Avenue in the Shadyside neighborhood of

(1886) * West End United Methodist Church, 621 Main Street in the Elliott neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1887) *

Duquesne Club The Duquesne Club is a private social club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1873. History The Duquesne Club was founded in 1873. Its first president was John H. Ricketson. The club's present home, a Romanesque structure designed by Lon ...

, at 325 Sixth Avenue in

downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose ...

(1887 to 1889; addition by Alden & Harlow in 1902) *

Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall The Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall is the city hall for Cambridge, Massachusetts, located at 795 Massachusetts Avenue, and built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building additionally serves as a centerpiece of the surrounding ...

, built in 1888 and 1889 * Edwin Abbot House,

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, ...

(1889) *

Brattle Hall Brattle Hall is a historic building along Brattle Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was constructed in 1889 for the Cambridge Social Union – established in 1871 – when that organization moved into the adjacent ...

(1889) * First United Methodist Church, Parker Avenue at Library Street,

Braddock, Pennsylvania Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It is upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela River. The population was 1,721 as of the 2020 census. The borough is represented by the Pen ...

(1889) * Joseph Horne House, 838 Lincoln Avenue in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1889) *

McKeesport National Bank McKeesport National Bank (now McKeesport City Hall) located at 5th Avenue and Sinclair Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was built from 1889 to 1891. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Histor ...

, Fifth Avenue and Sinclair Street,

McKeesport, Pennsylvania McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census. It ...

(1889 to 1891) * Theodore Parker Church,

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(1890) * Frank Alden House, 617 Linden Avenue in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1890) * Carnegie Institute and

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in the

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neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1892 to 1895; addition to Institute by Alden & Harlow from 1903 to 1907)''Landmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County'' by Walter C. Kidney, page 234 (1985,

, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) * Hunnewell Building at

Arnold Arboretum The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a botanical research institution and free public park, located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in N ...

in Boston, Massachusetts (1892 to 1903) * J.A. Noyes House,

(1894) *"

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" (James G. Pontefract House), Little Sewickley Creek Road,

Edgeworth, Pennsylvania Edgeworth is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River approximately 14 miles (22.5 km) northwest of Pittsburgh. The population was 1,680 at the 2010 census. Edgeworth is the wealthiest town in Pennsylvania. History ...

(1894) *" Red Gables" (Frank Alden House), 605 Maple Lane,

(1894) *

Carnegie Building (Pittsburgh) The Carnegie Building, also known as the Carnegie Steel Building, was a high-rise building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. History The structure started construction in 1893 and was completed in 1895 as the city's tallest at the time. It was the ...

, the first steel-framed building in Pittsburgh, PA (1895) * Garrison Foundry-Mackintosh Hemphill Company Offices,

South Side Flats The South Side Flats is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's South Side area. It is located just south of the Monongahela River. The neighborhood has one of the City of Pittsburgh's largest concentrations of 19th-century homes, which ha ...

, Pittsburgh, PA (1895)

Alden & Harlow

Carnegie Library of Homestead The Carnegie Library of Homestead is a public library founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1898. It is one of 2,509 Carnegie libraries worldwide; 1,689 built in the United States. It was the sixth library commissioned by Carnegie in the U.S. and the s ...

Munhall, Pennsylvania Munhall is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the west bank of the Monongahela River, south of the confluence of the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers where the Ohio River begins. It abuts the borough of Homestead ...

(1896) *The greenhouse and playhouse at the

Frick Art & Historical Center The Frick Pittsburgh is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and formed around the Frick family's nineteenth-century residence known as "Clayton". It focuses on the interpretation of t ...

, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1897) *Byers-Lyons House, in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1898) *

Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, which is located at 279 Fisk Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened on May 10, 1898. Designed by the architectural firm Alden & Harlow, it was ...

(1898) * The Pittsburgh Golf Club, 5280 Northumberland Street in the

Squirrel Hill Squirrel Hill is a residential neighborhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The city officially divides it into two neighborhoods, Squirrel Hill North and Squirrel Hill South, but it is almost universally treated a ...

neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1899, enlarged 1904) *Carnegie Library of Steubenville, 407 S. 4th Street,

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(1899) Renovated (2018) Main Library, Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County *

Mount Washington Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Mount Washington Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh located at 315 Grandview Avenue in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was built in 1900. It was designed by the architectural firm Alden & Harlow, and ...

(1900) * Oakmont Carnegie Library, Allegheny River Boulevard,

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(1901) * The Bank Tower (Peoples Savings Bank Building), at 307 Fourth Avenue in

(1901 and 1902) *

Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is a school for deaf and hard of hearing children in Edgewood, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1869. The school is listed as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmar ...

Administrative Building, Swissvale Avenue and Walnut Street in Edgewood, Pennsylvania (1903) * Bellefield Boiler Plant ("Cloud Factory"), built to provide steam for the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (1903 to 1907) *" Muottas" (William Walker House), Little Sewickley Creek Road,

(1904) * Regal Shoe Company, at the corner of Market Street and Fifth Avenue (160 Fifth Avenue),

(1908) *

South Side Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

(1909) *

Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh The Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is an historic library which is located in the city of in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built at 7101 Hamilton Avenue in the Homewood South neighborhood, and opened on March 10, 1910. ...

(1910) *

Mellon Park Mellon Park is a park in the Shadyside and Point Breeze neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, straddling both sides of Fifth Avenue, from approximately Shady Avenue to Penn Avenue, the western corner abutting Pittsburgh Center for the Ar ...

gardens in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA (1912) * Fox Chapel Golf Club, 426 Fox Chapel Road in

Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania Fox Chapel is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, and is an affluent suburb of Pittsburgh located northeast of downtown. The borough continually garners national prominence and is home to many of the wealthiest and most powerful p ...

(1924 and 1925)

Longfellow, Alden & Harlow gallery

File:Sunnyledge.jpg, Sunnyledge, built in 1886, in the Shadyside neighborhood of

. File:WestEndUnitedMethodistChurch.jpg, West End United Methodist Church, built in 1887, in the Elliott neighborhood of

. File:DuquesneClub.jpg,

, built from 1887 to 1889, in

(with an addition by Alden & Harlow in 1902). File:Cambridge, Massachusetts City Hall.jpg,

, built in 1888 and 1889. File:Edwin Abbot House - 1 Follen Street, Cambridge, MA - IMG 4061.JPG, Edwin Abbot House, built in 1889, in

. File:Brattle Hall in Cambridge, MA.jpg,

, built in 1889, in

. File:JosephHorneHouse.jpg, Joseph Horne House, built in 1889, in the Allegheny West neighborhood of

. File:McKeesportNationalBank.jpg,

(now McKeesport City Hall), built from 1889 to 1891, in

. File:Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh.JPG, Carnegie Institute, 1892 to 1895, original building, as well as an addition from 1903 to 1907, in the

neighborhood of

. File:CarnegieLibraryPittsburghFrontEntrance.jpg,

, 1892 to 1895. File:CarnegieFreeLibraryofBraddock.jpg,

Carnegie Free Library of Braddock The Braddock Carnegie Library in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is the first Carnegie Library in the United States. As such, the library was named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, following its listing on the National Register of Historic Places i ...

, built in 1888 and designed by

William Halsey Wood William Halsey Wood (April 24, 1855 – March 13, 1897) was an American architect. Early life Wood was the youngest of four sons born to Daniel Halsey Wood and Hannah Lippincott Wood. Shortly after his birth in 1855, the family relocated from ...

. The 1893 addition by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow is to the right of and including the octagonal tower. File:J. A. Noyes House, 1 Highland Street, Cambridge, MA - IMG 4328.JPG, J.A. Noyes House, built in 1894, in

. File:FormerGarrisonFoundry-MackintoshHemphillCo.jpg, Garrison Foundry-Mackintosh Hemphill Company Offices, built in 1895, in the

neighborhood of

Alden & Harlow gallery

File:CarnegieLibraryofHomestead.jpg,

, built in 1896, in

. File:FrickGreenhouse.jpg, The greenhouse and playhouse at the

, built in 1897, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of

. File:Byers-LyonsHouse.jpg,

Byers-Lyons House The Byers-Lyons House (now Byers Hall of the Community College of Allegheny County's Allegheny Campus) in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building from 1898. It was added to the List of City of Pittsburgh his ...

, built in 1898, in the Allegheny West neighborhood of

. File:CarnegieLibaryLawrencevillePHLF.jpg,

, built in 1898. File:CarnegieLibraryofPittsburgh,MountWashington.JPG,

, built in 1900. File:ArrottBuildingandTheBankTower.jpg, The Bank Tower (on the right), built in 1901 and 1902, at 307 Fourth Avenue in

. File:Bellefield Boiler Plant Pittsburgh.jpg, Cloud Factory, built from 1903 to 1907, in the

district of

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. File:MarketatFifth.jpg, Regal Shoe Company, part of Market at Fifth by

Market Square The market square (or sometimes, the market place) is a Town square, square meant for trading, in which a market is held. It is an important feature of many towns and cities around the world.downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose ...

, built in 1908. File:SouthSideCarnegieLibraryPittsburgh.jpg,

, built in 1909. File:HomewoodCarnegieLibraryofPittsburgh.jpg,

, built in 1910. File:MellonParkFountain.jpg,

, gardens designed in 1912, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of

. File:Main Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County Ohio.jpg, Main Library, Public Library of

Steubenville Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Ohio River 33 miles west of Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city's name is deri ...

and Jefferson County Ohio, First Carnegie Library approved for Ohio, June 30, 1899, Opened March 12, 1902. .

References

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