American architect
Charles Greely Loring III (October 23, 1881 – September 3, 1966) was an American architect based in Boston .
Biography
Loring's father, also named Charles Greely Loring , was a Union Army general during the Civil War .[ 2] The younger Loring graduated from Harvard in 1903 and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1906,[ 2] where he was a member of Chi Phi .[ 3] After briefly working for Guy Lowell ,[ 4] Loring studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris , passing the entrance exam in February 1907.[ 3] He subsequently worked as an architect, first for Cass Gilbert in New York City , then at a firm he co-founded in Boston in 1912, Loring & Leland.[ 5] [ 4] Loring & Leland were architects of the Francis Buttrick Library in Waltham, Massachusetts , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .[ 6] Loring was also member of St. Botolph Club , a private social club in Boston.[ 2] The Loring & Leland partnership ended in 1919.[ 4]
In 1915, Loring married Katharine A. Page, the daughter of Walter Hines Page , then the U.S ambassador to the United Kingdom .[ 2] The wedding ceremony took place at St James's Palace in London and was attended by H. H. Asquith , then the Prime Minister , and Edward Grey , then the British Ambassador to the U.S. [ 7] Katharine died in 1956.[ 8]
During World War II, Loring headed a Massachusetts group responsible for camouflaging buildings considered possible aerial bombing targets.[ 9] Shortly after the war, he was the architect for a new "temporary" terminal building that opened at Logan Airport in Boston in May 1946.[ 10] In 1947, he was the architect for another building at the airport, reworking an existing hangar for use as an international terminal.[ 11]
Loring was the architect for various public buildings, including the library in Beverly, Massachusetts ;[ 12] a fire station in Reading, Massachusetts ;[ 13] and the building now known as Old Somersworth High School in Somersworth, New Hampshire , which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[ 14] Loring remained professionally active as late as 1958, designing a telephone exchange building in Williamstown, Massachusetts .[ 15] He died in 1966 in Concord, Massachusetts , and was survived by three children.[ 16]
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References
^ "Draft Registration Card" . Selective Service System . April 1942. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via fold3.com.
^ a b c d "Table Gossip" . The Boston Globe . May 9, 1915. p. 66. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ a b "Technology Men Win Honors Abroad" . The Boston Globe . February 24, 1907. p. 11. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ a b c "Charles Greely Loring" . Back Bay Houses . Retrieved November 4, 2023 .
^ Pope, Charles Henry (1917). Loring Genealogy . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Murray and Emery. p. 338. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via archive.org.
^ "History: Waltham Public Library" . Waltham Public Library . Archived from the original on January 6, 2023. Retrieved March 16, 2023 .
^ "Miss Page's Wedding In London Is Marked By Simple Ceremony" . The Atlanta Journal . August 4, 1915. p. 9. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Mrs. Katharine Loring" . The Boston Globe . March 11, 1956. p. 64. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Landmarks, War Plants in State to Be Camouflaged" . The Boston Globe . June 4, 1942. p. 17. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Airport (cont'd)" . The Boston Globe . May 17, 1946. p. 10. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Logan Terminal for World Flights to Be Ready Jan. 1" . The Boston Globe . October 19, 1947. p. 11. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Charles Greeley Loring" . buildingsofnewengland.com . Retrieved October 31, 2023 .
^ "New Reading Fire House Dedicated by Townspeople" . The Boston Globe . September 22, 1957. p. 24. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ Angers, Shelly (November 27, 2015). "Somersworth's Hilltop School on Nat'l Register of Historic Places" . forumhome.org . Retrieved October 31, 2023 .
^ "Dial Plant Started in Williamstown" . The Berkshire Eagle . Pittsfield, Massachusetts . June 7, 1958. p. 9. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
^ "Deaths: Loring" . The Boston Globe . September 5, 1966. p. 50. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via newspapers.com.