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Verticle File 1A
GUSN-330477
This preliminary study for a theater in Boston is believed to be the Colonial Theatre. The preliminary study is by the New York City firm James M. Wood and John G. Howard Associated Architects.
renderings (drawings)
architectural drawings (visual works)
1 architectural drawing
AR001
General architectural and cartographic collection
AR001.USMA.0250.009
circa 1900
renderings (drawings)
architectural drawings (visual works)
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Verticle File 1A
James M. Wood was born in New York in 1841 and John Galen Howard was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts in 1864. Howard studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began his career in the office of Henry Hobson Richardson and the successor firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he moved to New York City, working for McKim, Mead and White, before beginning his own practice and collaborating with Wood. Together, James M. Wood and John G. Howard also designed the Saxon Theatre (also known as the Majestic Theatre), now called the Cutler MajesticTheatre.
The Colonial Theatre, formally designed by Clarence Blackall, opened to the public in 1900 and retains many of the architectural elements seen in this earlier preliminary study.
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