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Little & Browne, 1890-1892, 1897-1939

Little, Browne & Moore, 1892-1897

From anonymous in The Brickbuilder, 1899: "Surely, no one is able to more successfully treat the colonial style than this firm."

From anonymous in The Architectural Review of Boston, 1903: ""In our own Colonial style, the American adaptation of Georgian, but as distinct from that as the English is distinct from the French of the same date, we have, first, almost no record of the architects, and such as they were, they had nothing like the opportunities which one has now. They built, however, with taste and judgment, with a nice sense of proportion, with a wise discrimination as to expenditure, which have given us buildings in every way admirable. With these examples before us, with every advantage of education, with a strong popular sentiment for the character of the work associated with the eighteenth century, there is not one in ten, not one in a hundred—of the buildings erected on so-called Colonial lines which have the modest charm of those old houses, public or private—which look like the real thing. The good ones are so rare that they stand out as shining examples. Messrs. Little & Browne have, in a number of cases, accomplished the feat, and have given us buildings, not replicas, but reflections, as it were, of the very mood and temper of the time which produced the old house.""

- Anonymous, 1902.

Arthur Little was born November 29, 1852 in Boston to James Lovell Little and Julia Augusta (Cook) Little. He was educated at the Chauncy Hall School in Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1875. He studied in Europe and worked for Peabody & Stearns before opening his own office in 1879.

In 1890 Little built his own house at 2 Raleigh Street in Boston. After his marriage he lived in various houses on Commonwealth Avenue.

Architectural works

 * House for William W. Swan, Brookline, Massachusetts (1887)
 * House for Joseph G. Thorp, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1888)
 * House for Arthur Little, Boston, Massachusetts (1890)
 * Peabody Institute, Danvers, Massachusetts (1891-92, NRHP 1997)
 * Central Congregational Church, Lynn, Massachusetts (1893)
 * Remodeling of "Glen Magna Farms" for Ellen Peabody Endicott, Danvers, Massachusetts (1893)
 * "Faulkner Farm" for Charles F. Sprague, Brookline, Massachusetts (1897, NRHP 1985)
 * House for George K. Birge, Buffalo, New York (1897)
 * House for Fred. Mead, Brookline, Massachusetts (1898)
 * Maple Street School (former), Danvers, Massachusetts (1899)
 * House remodeling for Frederick H. Prince, Boston, Massachusetts (1901)
 * "Rockmarge" for William H. Moore, Beverly, Massachusetts (1901)
 * House for Larz Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia (1902-05)
 * "Swiftmoor" for Edwin C. Swift, Beverly, Massachusetts (1902, demolished)
 * "Eagle Rock" for Henry Clay Frick, Beverly, Massachusetts (1904, demolished 1969)
 * House for Henry P. King, Boston, Massachusetts (1907)
 * "Willowbank" for William A. Slater, Beverly, Massachusetts (1907)
 * Merchants National Bank Building, Salem, Massachusetts (1910-11)
 * House for Francis H. Dewey, Worcester, Massachusetts (1912)
 * Jacob Edwards Library, Southbridge, Massachusetts (1914)
 * "Knollwood" for Lyman Gordon, Worcester, Massachusetts (1914, 1980)
 * House for Henry G. Vaughn, Sherborn, Massachusetts (1915)
 * Masonic Temple, Salem, Massachusetts (1915-16)
 * Remodeling of and additions to "North Wales" for Edward M. Weld, Warrenton, Virginia (1916-20)
 * Masonic Temple, Danvers, Massachusetts (1926)<ref name="Danvers"/
 * Tapley Memorial Hall of the Danvers Historical Society, Danvers, Massachusetts (1930-31)