Henry Clifford Boles

Henry Clifford Boles (1910–1979), also known as Hank Boles, was an American architect. He had his own architecture firm, as well as being a part of the Associated Architect and Engineer firm from 1957 to 1969 with civil engineer Paul Parks. Early in his career Boles worked on designing buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, through a United States Department of State program. In his later life he primarily designed in Massachusetts and worked on many civic and community projects in Boston, in the town of Dennis, and in the surrounding area.

Early life and education Henry Clifford Boles was born on February 22, 1910, in Oxford, Mississippi, to parents Willa Wright Boles and William Robert Boles, a shoe cobbler. He returned to school many years later and graduated with a M.Arch (1949) from Harvard University, where he studied under Walter Gropius. Early commissioned projects were the Methuen Junior High School and Saint Stephan's Episcopal Church Parish Hall (1961) in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. William Spilman, an engineer, later joined the firm. Boles' profile was included in the biographical dictionary African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945 (2004).

Personal life Boles married Myrtle C. Spralley in 1938, together they had 3 children. Monrovia Elementary School (1954), Monrovia, Liberia Brewster Baptist Church (1976), 1648 Brewster Street, Brewster, Massachusetts Brunswick Gardens , Brunswick Street, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts Bureau of Building and Construction office and garage, Plymouth, Massachusetts