Herbert R. Hunt

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Herbert R. Hunt
Born1885
Died1961
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsRosedale Apartments
Rosedale Apartments, Cranston, 1939.

Herbert R. Hunt (1885–1961) was an American architect from Providence, Rhode Island.

He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was working as a draftsman by age 15.[1] By 1915, he was working as an architect in Providence. Around 1917 he left the city, returning in 1922.[2] His most prominent surviving building is the Rosedale Apartments in Cranston, built in 1939. Hunt retired in 1954 and died in 1961 at the age of 74.[1]

A great deal of Hunt's work was for the Cherry & Webb Company and associated businesses.

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  1. ^ a b c d Rosedale Apartments NRHP Nomination. 2006.
  2. ^ American Contractor 23 Sept. 1922: 28.
  3. ^ American Contractor 11 Aug. 1917: 41.
  4. ^ Engineering News-Record 1925: 158.
  5. ^ Bridgemen's Magazine 1934: 100.
  6. ^ Engineering News-Record 1939: 139.