J. Harleston Parker

J. Harleston Parker (1873 - May 5, 1930) was an American architect active in Boston, Massachusetts.

Parker was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard University in 1893, then studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, after a further four years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, took his degree in 1899. In 1900, he formed the firm of Parker & Thomas in Boston with Douglas H. Thomas Jr., which later in 1907 added Arthur Wallace Rice to become Parker, Thomas & Rice. As head of the firm, he designed many notable buildings and served as chairman of the Boston Art Commission.

In 1921, he established the "Harleston Parker Medal" in memory of his father, awarded annually by the Boston Society of Architects and City of Boston to recognize "such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects for any private citizen, association, corporation, or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District".

Selected works
A 1905 portrait by Parker of Stone Hill House, home of Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. and now part of Stonehill College

A number of their works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, maintained by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Works include:

As Parker & Thomas
As Parker, Thomas & Rice

References
  1. Foreman, John (16 October 2013). "Refugee from the Gilded Age". Big Old Houses. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
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