James E. McLaughlin

James Ernest McLaughlin (18 October 1873 – 17 February 1966) was a Canadian-American architect active primarily in Boston, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area from about 1905 through the 1950s. He designed Fenway Park—home stadium of the Boston Red Sox baseball team—among many other buildings in Massachusetts. Early in his career, McLaughlin collaborated on some designs with his maternal uncle and fellow architect James Mulcahy. From 1920 onward, McLaughlin was partnered with architect George Houston Burr under the name McLaughlin and Burr.

Early life McLaughlin was born on 18 October 1873 (some sources say 1874 or 1875) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 1885, at the age of 12, McLaughlin immigrated to Boston. On 4 April 1908, he married Mary Josephine Ratigan in Boston. He began practicing as an architect around 1905. Some of his other early projects include Massachusetts Army National Guard armories in the central Massachusetts towns of Hingham, Hudson, Natick, and Newton. McLaughlin collaborated on the armory projects with his maternal uncle and fellow architect James Mulcahy; it is not clear whether they were formal business partners. In 1916, a year after Mulcahy's death, McLaughlin designed the Commonwealth Armory in Boston.

In 1914 a certain George Houston Burr started working for McLaughlin as a draftsman, becoming an architect in his own right in 1915. Boston Latin School, Boston Dorchester High School, Dorchester Temple Israel Meeting House, Boston