George Albert Clough (May 27, 1843 – December 30, 1910) was an architect working in

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in the late 19th-century. He designed the

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, and numerous other buildings in the city and around New England. Clough served as the first City Architect of Boston from 1876 to 1883.

Life and career

George Albert Clough was born May 27, 1843, in

Blue Hill, Maine Blue Hill is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,792 at the 2020 census. It is home to the Blue Hill Public Library, Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, George Stevens Academy, the Blue Hill Harbor School, The Bay Sch ...

. He attended the Blue Hill Academy and worked as a draftsman for his father, the shipbuilder Asa Clough. He moved to Boston in 1863, entering the firm of Snell & Gregerson as a student. He remained with Snell until 1869, when he established his own practice."George A. Clough," in
Massachusetts of To-day: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
', ed. Daniel P. Toomey and Thomas C. Quinn (Boston: Columbia Publishing Company, 1892): 230. In 1876 he was elected City Architect of Boston, the first person to hold the office. He continued in that position until 1883, when he was replaced by Charles J. Bateman. He was awarded his largest commission, the

, in competition two years later in 1885. This building was completed in 1893, largely to Clough's design but with modifications he disapproved of. He was a private practitioner until 1901, when he formed a partnership with Herbert L. Wardner. Clough & Wardner operated until Clough's death in 1910. Wardner continued to practice on his own in Boston until 1915, when he moved to

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, moving again to

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, in 1919, where he died in 1939.

Personal life

In 1876 Clough married Amelia M. Hinckley of

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, the sister of Lyman G. Hinckley. They had three children. Clough died December 30, 1910, at home in

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, at the age of 67.

Legacy

Historian

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described him as "a competent but not very inspired practitioner." His finer works, typically in

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style, disagree. A number of Clough's projects have been listed on the United States

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Architectural works

* Gaston Grammar School, City Point, South Boston, 1873 *

Fields Corner Municipal Building The Fields Corner Municipal Building is a historic municipal building at 1 Arcadia Street and 195 Adams Street in the Dorchester, Massachusetts, Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1875, it is a prominent local example of G ...

, Dorchester, Boston, 1874 *

Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse The Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse is a historic water works facility in Framingham, Massachusetts. This complex is located at the end of Framingham Reservoir No. 1, which is also known as the Stearns Reservoir, off Winter Street an ...

, E end of Framingham Reservoir No. 1, off Winter St. N of Long Ave.

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, 1876 * Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse, SE end of Framingham Reservoir No. 3, off MA 9/30

, 1876 * English High and Latin School, Montgomery St., Boston, 1877 * Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse, Between Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2, W of jct. of Winter and Fountain Sts.

, 1877 * Marcella Street Home, Boston, 1880 * Prince School, corner Newbury St. and Exeter St., Boston, 1881 *

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, restored by Clough 1881-1882 *

Dillaway School The Dillaway School is an historic school at 16-20 Kenilworth Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1882 to a design by George Albert Clough, the city's first official architect, and is his only surviving school design in the ...

, Boston, 1882 * Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex, Dorchester, Boston, 1883 * Goddard Hall,

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, Medford, Massachusetts, 1883 *

Lyman School for Boys The Lyman School for Boys was established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about 1886 and was closed in 1971. It was the first reform school, or training school in the United States, replacing the State Reform School for Boys near the same si ...

, Westborough, Massachusetts, c.1885, NRHP-listed * Barncastle, 125 South St. (formerly 'Ideal Lodge')

, 1884 * B.M.C. Durfee High School building, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1886 * Buck Memorial Library,

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, 1887 * Bridge Academy, ME 127 and ME 197

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, 1890 * St. Mark's Methodist Church, 90 Park St.

, 1892 * Curtis Hall, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1893 *

, Pemberton Square, Boston, 1893 * New England Historic Genealogical Society building extension, Somerset St., Boston, 1894 * William Hayes Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy, Maine, 1894 * Church of the Gate of Heaven, South Boston, c.1896 *

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, 185 South St.

1900 remodeling. *

Rockland Public Library The Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union Street in central Rockland, Maine. It is located in an architecturally distinguished building, built in 1903–04 with funding support from Andrew Carnegie. The library was listed on the Natio ...

, Rockland, Maine, 1903Stimpson. Rockland, Rockport and Camden. New England Magazine, Sept. 1904 * Vinalhaven Public Library, Carver St.

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, 1906 * Bridgewater state workhouse * Westboro insane asylum * Northampton insane asylum * Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass * Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District, along Sudbury Aqueduct from Farm Pond at Waverly St. to Chestnut Hill Reservoir

Gallery

OldSuffolkCMaCourt.JPG,

, Pemberton Square, Boston BMC_Durfee_High_School.jpg, B.M.C. Durfee High School,

Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...

Dillaway School.jpg, Dillaway School, Boston Lyman-hall-old.jpg,

Westborough, Massachusetts Westborough is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,567 at the 2020 Census, in over 7,000 households. Incorporated in 1717, the town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed ...

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, Boston Fogg_Memorial_Building,_Berwick_Academy,_South_Berwick,_Maine.jpg, Fogg Memorial Building, Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine (1894) BostonMA CalfPasturePumpingStationComplex.jpg, Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex, Dorchester, Boston, in 2010 FraminghamMA ReservoirNumberTwoGatehouse.jpg, Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse,

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