About Henry H. Kendall
Lived 1855 – 1943 (aged 87–88). Henry H. Kendall was an American architect.
Henry Hubbard Kendall (March 4, 1855 – February 28, 1943) was an American architect from Boston, Massachusetts. He wrote a letter to the U.S. Civil Service commission critiquing the low pay for government architects. Kendall was the senior partner in the firm Kendall, Taylor & Company. Several of his or the firm's works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, for their architectural merit.
Kendall & Taylor was an architecture firm formed in 1908 by Henry H. Kendall and Bertrand E. Taylor. The firm did work in Durham, North Carolina.
Biography Kendall was born March 4, 1855, in New Braintree, Massachusetts. He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the age of 20.
He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and served as the group's president from 1920 to 1922.
He died February 28, 1943, at his home in Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
Works Works (with attribution) include: Belchertown State School, 30 State St., Belchertown, Massachusetts (Kendall, Taylor & Co.), NRHP-listed Westborough State Hospital, along Lyman St. N of Chauncy Lake and jct. of South St. and MA 9, Westborough, Massachusetts (Kendall, Taylor & Stevens), NRHP-listed White Memorial Building, 109 Main St., Houlton, Maine (Kendall, Taylor & Stevens), NRHP-listed Wrentham State School, Jct. of Emerald and North Sts., Wrentham, Massachusetts (Kendall & Taylor), NRHP-listed Contributing property Beech Hill Summer Home District, Harrisville, New Hampshire (Kendall, Taylor & Stevens), NRHP-listed John Sprunt Hill House, 900 S. Duke St., Durham, North Carolina (Kendall & Taylor), NRHP-listed Watts Hospital, Broad St. and Club Blvd., Durham, North Carolina (Kendall & Taylor), NRHP-listed A contributing property in the Watts-Hillandale Historic District, Durham, North Carolina (Kendall and Taylor), NRHP-listed One or more works in Beech Hill Summer Home District, Harrisville, New Hampshire (Kendall, Taylor & Stevens), NRHP-listed Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Massachusetts (Kendall, Taylor & Co.), NRHP-listed Watts Hospital, Broad St. and Club Blvd., Durham, North Carolina (Kendall & Taylor), NRHP-listed One or more works in Watts-Hillandale Historic District, Durham, North Carolina (Kendall and Taylor), NRHP-listed
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