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Charles Hodgdon (1866–1953) was an American architect best known for his work in the Midwestern United States.

Life and career
Charles Hodgdon was born August 19, 1866 in Boston to Charles F. Hodgdon and Sarah T. (Lynam) Hodgdon. He was raised and educated in Weymouth. He worked as a drafter for different architects before opening his own office in Boston in 1892. After ten years he joined the large firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. In 1907 they sent him to Chicago to manage their branch office there. Shepley had died in 1903, and a stroke in 1912 left Rutan disabled and unable to work. In 1914 Coolidge, as the only active partner, dissolved the partnership and in 1915 formed two new autonomous partnerships to continue the work of the firm, with George C. Shattuck in Boston and Hodgdon in Chicago. The firm of Coolidge & Hodgdon was active until 1930, when Coolidge retired from the Chicago partnership. Hodgdon then formed a new partnership, Charles Hodgdon & Son, with his son John M. Hodgdon. Hodgdon retired from practice in 1945.

Personal life
Hodgdon was married twice. He was married first in 1891 to Mary Emmeline Mendum of Boston. They had two sons, Frederick Hodgdon and John M. Hodgdon, who both became architects. She died in 1934, and Hodgdon married second in 1940 to Elizabeth Rohrbach of Fort Dodge, Iowa. He and his second wife retired to Pasadena, California, where he died November 21, 1953.

Hodgdon was a long-time member of the committee of the Burnham Library of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Union League Club of Chicago.

Partial list of works

 * Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, 5640 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, Illinois (1916–17)
 * First United Presbyterian Church, 400 Fifth Ave S, Clinton, Iowa (1917–19)
 * Louise Pound Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (1917–19)
 * Fountain Street Church, 24 Fountain St NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1921–24)
 * McKinlock Court of the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois (1924)
 * Swift Hall and Joseph Bond Chapel, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1926)
 * Abbott Memorial Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1927)
 * Albert Merrit Billings Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1927)
 * Temple Sholom, 3480 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, Illinois (1928–30)
 * Wieboldt Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1928)
 * George Herbert Jones Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1929)
 * Social Science Research Building, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1929)
 * Old Main restoration, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois (1932–35 and 1936–37, NHL 1961, NRHP 1966)
 * Agnes Mellby Hall, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota (1938)
 * Second Church of Christ, Scientist (former), 910 W Main St, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1938)

Shattuck
George C. Shattuck (1863–1923) was an American architect best known for his work with the Boston architectural firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge and its successor, Coolidge & Shattuck.

Life and career
In 1899 Shattuck briefly moved to Montreal, having been invited there by his former classmate and coworker Edward Maxwell. The two architects formed the partnership of Maxwell & Shattuck and were responsible for several works, most importantly a major expansion of Windsor Station. These additions included the present main entrance and most of the west facade of the station. In 1902 Shattuck returned to Boston, where he was rehired by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge as chief drafter.

Shepley
Henry R. Shepley (1887–1962) was an American architect.

Life and career
Henry Richardson Shepley was born May 1, 1887 in Brookline, Massachusetts to architect George Foster Shepley and Julia Hayden (Richardson) Shepley. His grandfather was architect Henry Hobson Richardson. He was educated at the Groton School before entering Harvard College, graduating in 1910. In 1911 he traveled to France to study at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and was awarded a diploma in 1914. After his return to the United States he joined Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, later Coolidge & Shattuck, as a drafter. In this capacity he was designer of the S K Club in Cambridge, completed in 1916. During World War I Shepley was in charge of the construction all air service facilities in the Paris District, including Orly Field. At the end of the war he was architect to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, and was discharged in May of 1919. After he returned to Boston he rejoined Coolidge & Shattuck, and was promoted to chief drafter in 1920. In 1924, following the death of George C. Shattuck, surviving partner Charles Allerton Coolidge formed a new partnership with Shepley and two others to form the firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. When Coolidge died in 1936 Shepley became senior partner, which he remained until his death. In 1952 the firm became Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott with the addition of Joseph P. Richardson, another grandson of Richardson, to the partnership. Shepley continued the firm's focus on institutional architecture, and designed buildings for many major institutions, including Boston Children's Hospital, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Northeastern University, Rhode Island Hospital, Smith College, Vanderbilt University, Vassar College and Wellesley College, among others.

Late in his career the firm was chosen architect for the Netherlands American Cemetery, which was dedicated in 1960. For his role in this work Shepley was awarded the badge of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1961. He received other major awards for other work, including the Gold Medal of the Architectural League of New York in 1933, the medal of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1953, an honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University in 1957 and the Gold Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1958.

From 1936 to 1940 Shepley was a member of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, and was its vice chair from 1938.

Shepley joined the American Institute of Architects in 1921, and was elected a Fellow in 1936.

Personal life
In 1919, four months after his discharge, Shepley was married to Anna Lowell (Gardiner) Draper, daughter of Robert Hallowell Gardiner III. They had five children, including four sons and one daughter. After twenty years in Brookline, in 1941 the couple moved to Essex, buying a Colonial-era house at 102 Apple Street, which was restored by Shepley. Shepley died November 24, 1962 at his winter residence in Boston.

Bulfinch
Francis V. Bulfinch (1879–1963) was an American architect.

Life and career
Francis Vaughn Bulfinch was born June 3, 1879 in Southbridge, Massachusetts to George Greenleaf Bulfinch and Elizabeth (Dearborn) Bulfinch. His great-grandfather was the architect Charles Bulfinch. He was educated in the Boston public schools and graduated from Mechanic Arts High School in 1898. He worked for two years for landscape architects Coolidge & Titus and took courses in architectural engineering at the Evening Institute for Young Men. He worked for Warren & Wetmore in New York City and for architects in Boston before joining Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in 1907. After seventeen years with the firm and its successor, Coolidge & Shattuck, he was made a partner in the successor firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott in 1924. He was in charge of the firm's architectural engineering until his retirement in 1961. In this capacity he was associated with major building projects for the Massachusetts General Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, New York Hospital, Brown University and Northeastern University, amongst others.

Bulfinch joined the American Institute of Architects in 1921 and was elected a Fellow in 1948.

Personal life
Bulfinch was married in 1913 to Margaret Sargent Lunt of Boston, and they had three children, two sons and one daughter. Bulfinch died September 25, 1963 at home in Dover, Massachusetts.