Charles Greely Loring III (October 23, 1881 – September 3, 1966) was an American architect based in

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Loring's father, also named

Charles Greely Loring Charles Greely Loring may refer to: * Charles Greely Loring (architect) (1881–1966), American architect based in Boston, son of the Civil War general * Charles Greely Loring (general) (1828–1902), Union Army general during the Civil War, later ...

, was a

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general during the

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. The younger Loring graduated from

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in 1903 and from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1906, where he was a member of Chi Phi. After briefly working for Guy Lowell, Loring studied at

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, passing the entrance exam in February 1907. He subsequently worked as an architect, first for Cass Gilbert in

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, then at a firm he co-founded in Boston in 1912, Loring & Leland. Loring & Leland were architects of the Francis Buttrick Library in

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, which is listed on the

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. Loring was also member of

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, a private social club in Boston. The Loring & Leland partnership ended in 1919. In 1915, Loring married Katharine A. Page, the daughter of Walter Hines Page, then the U.S ambassador to the United Kingdom. The wedding ceremony took place at

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in London and was attended by

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, then the

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, and Edward Grey, then the British Ambassador to the U.S. Katharine died in 1956. During World War II, Loring headed a Massachusetts group responsible for camouflaging buildings considered possible aerial bombing targets. Shortly after the war, he was the architect for a new "temporary" terminal building that opened at

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in Boston in May 1946. In 1947, he was the architect for another building at the airport, reworking an existing

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for use as an international terminal. Loring was the architect for various public buildings, including the library in

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; a fire station in

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; and the building now known as

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in Somersworth, New Hampshire, which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Loring remained professionally active as late as 1958, designing a

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building in

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. He died in 1966 in

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, and was survived by three children.

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