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Leland & Larsen was an American architectural firm active in Boston, under several names, from 1919 to circa 1973.

Joseph D. Leland was an American architect from Boston, Massachusetts.

Life and career
Joseph Daniels Leland III

On two occassions, in 1916 and 1922, Leland was offered the office of Schoolhouse Commissioner by May James M. Curley, but he declined both times.

As a young architect, Leland gained a reputation as a designer of worker housing. Before World War I Loring & Leland designed worker housing for the Whitin Machine Works in Whitinsville and for the American Optical Company in Southbridge, Massachusetts. In 1917 Loring & Leland were selected as architects for Hilton Village in Newport News, Virginia, the first planned Federal housing development in the United States. In 1918 he was appointed assistant director of the Department of Labor's Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation under Otto M. Eidlitz. With Leland thus busy and Loring serving in the A. E. F., the project was completed by another architect, Francis Y. Joannes. When the United States Housing Corporation was formed later the same year, Leland was appointed vice president. In 1919 both men returned to Boston and dissolved their partnership. Among Leland's first independent works was a group of sixty houses for the Worcester Housing Corporation in Worcester, Massachusetts, commissioned in 1919.

After two years as a sole practitioner, in 1921 Leland reorganized his office as J. D. Leland & Company, with partners Michael A. Dyer (1886-1954), Niels H. Larsen (1885-1974), Maurice Feather (1886-1963), James H. Stone (1889-1928) and George F. Temple (1872-1956). Of these, Larsen and Feather would remain with the Leland office for the rest of their careers.

Niels Hjalmar Larsen was born May 17, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His family immigrated to the United States in 1891 and settled in Boston. He became a citizen in 1899. He was educated in the Boston public schools. In 1902 he joined the office of Boston architect Luther C. Greenleaf as a draftsman, and worked while also studying architecture in the classes offered by the Boston Architectural Club. He moved to the office of Coolidge & Shattuck in 1907 and to Parker, Thomas & Rice in 1908. That year he was awarded a scholarship to Harvard University, where he studied in 1908 and 1909. In 1911 he was awarded the Rotch Travelling Scholarship, administered by the Boston Society of Architects, which enabled him to travel and study in Europe for two years. Upon his return to the United States he rejoined Parker, Thomas & Rice as their chief designer. He joined the Leland office in 1919.

Maurice Feather was born March 23, 1886 in Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. His family later immigrated to the United States, settling in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. He was educated at Harvard University, earning an SB in 1907 and an SM in 1908. After graduation he was awarded the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship in 1911, which enabled him to travel and study, like Larsen, in Europe. After his return to Boston he worked for Maginnis & Walsh, Bigelow & Wadsworth, Parker, Thomas & Rice and R. Clipston Sturgis before joining the Leland office in 1921.

In 1935, after the departure of the other partners, the firm was renamed Leland & Larsen. It was composed of partners Leland, Larsen and Feather. In 1954 Leland & Larsen merged with Bradley & Hibbard, the firm of John F. Bradley and Charles L. Hibbard Jr., forming Leland, Larsen, Bradley & Hibbard. At this time Leland retired as an active partner but was retained as a consultant. In 1959 the name of the firm became Larsen, Bradley & Hibbard with Leland's full retirement. Leland died in 1968.

In 1961, with the addition of Edwin T. Steffian, it became Larsen, Steffian, Bradley & Hibbard, but returned to its former name when Steffian left in 1962. Feather, whose name had always been left out of the firm's name, died in 1963. In 1965, with the addition of Donald L. Gillespie and the withdrawl of Hibbard, it was renamed Larsen, Bradley, Gillespie & Associates. In 1967, Gillespie left and Larsen retired from the partnership, leaving Bradley as the sole partner of Larsen, Bradley & Associates. In 1970 the firm was renamed a last time to Larsen & Bradley Associates. It is listed in the Boston directories only as late at 1973, being absent in 1974. Larsen died in 1974, and Bradley in 1990.

Loring & Leland

 * Francis Buttrick Library, Waltham, Massachusetts (1914-15, NRHP 1989)
 * Worker housing for the American Optical Company, Southbridge, Massachusetts (1915, NRHP 1989)
 * Farms Branch of the Beverly Public Library, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts (1916)
 * House for Malcolm Donald, Milton, Massachusetts (1916)
 * New Holland Inn, New Holland, North Carolina (1916, demolished 1936)
 * Whitin Machine Works Office Building, Whitinsville, Massachusetts (1917)
 * W. C. C. S. Soldiers Club, Ayer, Massachusetts (1918, temporary building)

Joseph D. Leland, 1919–1921

 * "The Pink House" for Lawrence M. Keeler, Jamestown, Rhode Island (1919-20)

J. D. Leland & Company, 1921–1935

 * 531 Main Street Building, Worcester, Massachusetts (1921)
 * Kennebunk Town Hall, Kennebunk, Maine (1921)
 * "Pride's Hill" for Q. A. Shaw McKean and Margarett Sargent, Beverly, Massachusetts (1921 et seq., NRHP 1990)
 * 20 West Street Building, Boston (1922)
 * B. F. Brown Junior High School (former), Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1922)
 * Whitin Community Center, Whitinsville, Massachusetts (1922-23)
 * Worcester East Middle School, Worcester, Massachusetts (1922-24)
 * 30 Federal Street Building, Boston (1924)
 * Plymouth Memorial Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts (1924-25)
 * Washington Street School (former), Hanson, Massachusetts (1924)
 * 81 Beacon Street Apartments, Boston (1925)
 * New Hampshire Savings Bank Building, Concord, New Hampshire (1926-27, NRHP 1988)
 * Woburn Co-operative Bank Building, Woburn, Massachusetts (1926)
 * Concord High School, Concord, New Hampshire (1927)
 * "Hill House" for Herbert Scoville, Salisbury, Connecticut (1927)
 * "Seven Pines" for Keith Mcleod, Wenham, Massachusetts (1927)
 * Hotel Hixon, North Attleborough, Massachusetts (1928)
 * Browne School, Watertown, Massachusetts (1929-30, demolished)
 * Higgins Armory Museum (former), Worcester, Massachusetts (1929-31, NRHP 1980)
 * Levi Z. Thomas School (former), Hanson, Massachusetts (1929)
 * "La Tourelle" for Pierpont L. Stackpole, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1929, demolished)
 * Tyler House, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1930-32)
 * Pittsfield High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1931)
 * Clifton Merriman Post Office Building, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1933-35, NRHP 1986)
 * 1927 – Central Maine Power Company office building, 9 Green St, Augusta, Maine

Leland & Larsen, 1935-1954

 * 1937 – Arlmont Village, MA-2, Lexington, Massachusetts
 * 1939 – United Shoe Machinery Building, 2200 Washington Ave, St. Louis
 * NRHP-listed
 * 1943 – Southview Housing, Springfield, Vermont
 * NRHP-listed
 * 1943 – Westview Housing, Springfield, Vermont
 * 1947 – Bonwit Teller department store, 234 Berkeley St, Boston
 * With interior designer William Pahlmann and landscape architect George B. Cabot, the conversion of the former Boston Society of Natural History building into retail space
 * 1947 – Lexington Fire Department Headquarters, 45 Bedford St, Lexington, Massachusetts
 * Demolished
 * 1949 – Deering Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
 * 1949 – W. T. Grant department store, 260 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode Island
 * 1950 – W. T. Grant department store, 350 Essex St, Lawrence, Massachusetts
 * 1950 – Milton Hospital, 92 Highland St, Milton, Massachusetts
 * 1951 – East Lexington Fire Station, 998 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, Massachusetts
 * 1951 – Jimmy Fund Building of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, 43 Binney St, Boston
 * Expanded in 1957
 * 1951 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston gallery additions, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
 * Ten galleries replacing the former cast court to house the collection of Maxim Karolik and Martha Codman Karolik
 * 1953 – James Wheelock Clark Library, Russell Sage College, Troy, New York
 * 1954 – Memorial Building, 520 Cabot St, Beverly, Massachusetts
 * Demolished
 * 1955 – North Adams Hospital, 71 Hospital Ave, North Adams, Massachusetts

Leland, Larsen, Bradley & Hibbard, 1954–1959

 * 1956 – Scituate High School, 94 Trimtown Rd, Scituate, Rhode Island
 * 1958 – Clark Building, Medfield State Hospital, Medfield, Massachusetts
 * Demolished
 * 1958 – Copley Hospital, 528 Washington Hwy, Morrisville, Vermont
 * 1959 – Boston Herald-Traveler Building, 300 Harrison Ave, Boston
 * Demolished

Larsen, Bradley & Hibbard, 1959–1961 and 1962–1965

 * 1960 – Washburn Hall, Episcopal Divinity School (former campus), Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * 1965 – Hafer Academic Building, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts

Larsen, Steffian, Bradley & Hibbard, 1961–1962

 * 1961 – Levin Library, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts
 * 1961 – Science Building, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts
 * 1962 – Scholars Hall, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts

Larsen, Bradley, Gillespie & Associates, 1965–1967

 * 1968 – Colony Retirement Homes, 485 Grove St, Worcester, Massachusetts
 * Consulting architects to William Bradford Sprout Jr.

Larsen, Bradley & Associates, from 1967

 * W. T. Grant department store, 510 Congress St, Portland, Maine (1942)
 * American Art Association Galleries, New York, New York (1921, demolished)
 * Pythian Building, Whitinsville, Massachusetts (1921)