Stephen C. Earle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stephen C. Earle

architect

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1839

Place of Birth: Leicester, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 12-Dec-1913

Profession: architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Stephen Carpenter Earle (January 4, 1839 – December 12, 1913) was an architect who designed a number of buildings in Massachusetts and Connecticut that were built in the late 19th century, with many in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He trained in the office of Calvert Vaux in New York City.
He worked for a time in partnership with James E.
Fuller, under the firm "Earle & Fuller".
In 1891, he formed a partnership with Vermont architect Clellan W.
Fisher under the name "Earle & Fisher".Earle's most noted work is the Richardsonian Romanesque Slater Memorial Museum on the campus of the Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, where he had a generous budget and a sympathetic patron.
In 2015, the Hartford Courant called the Slater Museum the "crown jewel among Norwich's cultural treasures" and "a masterpiece of Romanesque revival design." He designed university buildings, commercial buildings, churches, and more.
Among his university buildings are: Clark University, Clark University campus, Worcester, Massachusetts Mears Hall, Grinnell College campus, Grinnell, Iowa Goodnow Hall, the oldest building on the Grinnell College campus (Grinnell, Iowa), built after most of the campus was destroyed by tornado in 1882 Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts campus, Amherst, MassachusettsIn December 1913, Earle died at Memorial Hospital in Worcester after becoming ill with pneumonia.