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History
Before the death of Henry Hobson Richardson on April 27, 1886, he left instructions that his practice should be continued by his three chief assistants, George Foster Shepley, Charles Hercules Rutan and Charles Allerton Coolidge. Following these instructions, they organized the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge in June in Brookline. They were first primarily engaged on the completion of Richardson's unfinished works, including the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, but by 1887 had moved their offices from suburban Brookline to downtown Boston and were soliciting new work. Major projects came quickly, and that same year they were commissioned to design the new campus of Stanford University in California and the Ames Building in Boston, followed in 1892 by the Chicago Institute of Art and the Chicago Cultural Center. During these formative years of their partnership Shepley and Coolidge purposefully embraced the Classical style of the Beaux-Arts in favor of the idiosyncratic Richardsonian Romanesque style.

Though based in Boston, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge inherited several field offices in Pittsburgh, St. Louis and elsewhere. In 1892 these were consolidated into a single branch office at Chicago with Coolidge as resident partner until 1900. A St. Louis office was reestablished in 1893 under the management of John Lawrence Mauran. In 1900 the firm chose to withdraw from St. Louis, and Mauran and two associates bought out the local business to form the firm of Mauran, Russell & Garden.

Shepley died in 1903, and Rutan became disabled in 1912, leaving Coolidge as the only active partner. Coolidge dissolved the partnership effective December 1, 1914, followed shortly by Rutan's death. By this time, Coolidge had found that the firm's two offices acted largely independently, and organized new partnerships to operate both: in Boston with George C. Shattuck and in Chicago with Charles Hodgdon, both long-time employees. Though they were both directed by Coolidge, the two firms operated independently of one another. In 1923, Shattuck died, and in 1924 Coolidge formed a new Boston partnership with Henry R. Shepley, Francis V. Bulfinch and Lewis B. Abbott, known as Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott. Shepley was the son of his former partner, and Bulfinch was the great-grandson of Charles Bulfinch. In 1930, Coolidge retired from the Chicago partnership, which was thereafter known as Charles Hodgdon & Son.

Coolidge was active as the senior partner of the Boston firm until his death in 1936, leaving Shepley as senior partner. The name of the firm was not changed until 1952, when, with the addition of Joseph P. Richardson, it was renamed Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott. Richardson was the great-grandson of H. H. Richardson. Other principals were added to the partnership over the next twenty years: in 1960 by James Ford Clapp Jr., son of the former partner of Clarence H. Blackall, in 1961 by Sherman Morss, in 1963 by Jean Paul Carlihan and Hugh Shepley, son of Henry R. Shepley, and in 1969 by Otis B. Robinson. In 1972 the firm was incorporated and the partnership was succeeded by a corporate structure, which it remains. In 1973 the American Institute of Architects awarded the firm their Architecture Firm Award. Since 2000 it has been known as Shepley Bulfinch.


 * James Ford Clapp Jr. (1972-)
 * George R. Mathey (1978-1994)
 * W. Mason Smith (1994-2001)
 * Oliver Egleston (2001-2004)
 * Carole Wedge (2004-2021)
 * Angela Watson (2021-Present)

Employees, 1886-1936

 * John Scudder Adkins
 * David Robertson Brown
 * Herbert C. Burdett
 * James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter Jr.
 * Frank Irving Cooper
 * John Robert Dillon
 * Hugh M. G. Garden
 * Edward T. P. Graham
 * Alfred Hoyt Granger
 * Henry Mather Greene
 * Edwin Hawley Hewitt
 * John Galen Howard
 * Myron Hunt
 * Paul V. Hyland
 * Arthur S. Keene
 * Calvin Kiessling
 * Samuel Abraham Marx
 * Victor Andre Matteson
 * John Lawrence Mauran
 * Edward Maxwell
 * Louis Christian Mullgardt
 * Charles Nagel
 * Joseph Ladd Neal
 * Williams G. Perry
 * Roy Place
 * Ernest John Russell
 * Edward Durell Stone
 * James Sweeney
 * Hermann V. von Holst

Employees, from 1936

 * Bissell Alderman
 * Gridley Barrows
 * Robert T. Coles
 * Eliot Noyes
 * Francis Sargent

Publications

 * Medical research building, Boston – Progressive Architecture (February, 1953): 108-112.
 * Dormitory, Wellesley College, Wellesley – Architectural Forum (June, 1953): 141-145.
 * Science building, Harvard University, Cambridge – Architectural Forum (June, 1953): 124-127.
 * School, Manchester – Architectural Record (July, 1953): 139-143.
 * Nurses' home, Boston – Architectural Record (March, 1954): 172-173.
 * Apartment building, Indianapolis, Indiana – Progressive Architecture (June, 1954): 9.
 * Physical education building, Northeastern University, Boston – Architectural Record (January, 1955): 142-144.
 * Footbridge, Boston – Architectural Record (February, 1955): 155-156.
 * Dormitory, Harvard University, Cambridge – Interiors (February, 1958): 80-81.
 * Dormitory, Harvard University, Cambridge – Architectural Record (April, 1958): 354, 360.
 * Dormitory, Harvard University, Cambridge – Progressive Architecture (September, 1958): 46.
 * Surgical suite, Providence, Rhode Island – Architectural Record (September, 1958): 216-217.
 * Dormitories and library, Harvard University, Cambridge – Architectural Record (February, 1959): 153-168.
 * Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley – same
 * Music building, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire – same
 * Dormitory, Harvard University, Cambridge – Progressive Architecture (September, 1960): 134-141.
 * Memorial chapel – Journal of the American Institute of Architects (August, 1961): 38.
 * Dormitory, Harvard University, Cambridge – Architectural Forum (September, 1961): 128-129.
 * Junior high school, Walpole – Architectural Record (October, 1962): 182-184.
 * Library proposal, Tufts University, Medford – Architectural Record (October, 1963): 12-13.
 * Library, Harvard University, Cambridge – Journal of the AIA (September, 1964): 42.
 * General hospital, Greenfield – Architectural Record (October, 1964): 188-189.
 * Theatre, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire – Journal of the AIA (December, 1964): 60.
 * Student center, Northeastern University, Boston – Progressive Architecture (July, 1966): 114-123.
 * Cable car terminal, Olympic Valley, California – Progressive Architecture (August, 1969): 86-89.
 * Graduate dormitories, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island – Architectural Forum (December, 1969): 24-31.
 * Cable car terminal, Olympic Valley, California – Journal of the AIA (June, 1970): 83.
 * Bio-medical center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island – Architectural Forum (June, 1971): 36-39.
 * Executive development complex, Harvard University, Allston – Architectural Record (January, 1972): 130-132.
 * College center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York – Architectural Record (July, 1975): 96-98.
 * Physical sciences center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire – Architectural Record (July, 1975): 92-95.
 * Savings bank, Andover – Architectural Record (July, 1975): 90-91.
 * College center, Vassar – Journal of the AIA (May, 1977): 34.
 * Student center, Vassar – Architectural Record (July, 1977): 73-78.
 * Medical center, Rockport, Maine – Architectural Record (August, 1977): 73-78.
 * Museum, Lexington – Architectural Record (May, 1978): 134-137.
 * Old Post Office rehabilitation proposal, Washington, DC – Architectural Record (December, 1978): 99.
 * Art museum addition, Baltimore, Maryland – Architectural Record (April, 1981): 126-129.
 * African and asian art museums, Washington, DC – Architectural Record (February, 1984): 112-121.
 * Library, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill – Architectural Record (April, 1987): 104-109.
 * African and asian art museums, Washington, DC – Architectural Record (September, 1987): 112-121.
 * African and asian art museums, Washington, DC – Architecture (November, 1987): 42-49.
 * Library addition, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio – Architecture (February, 1988): 78-81.
 * Ski villages, Heritage Greylock and Sugarloaf – Landscape Architecture (March, 1989): 70-72.
 * Library and science center, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, New Mexico – Architecture (April, 1992): 44-51.
 * Freer gallery, Washington, DC – Architecture (July, 1993): 26-27.
 * Three hospitals, New Haven, Providence and Lebanon – Architectural Record (February, 1993): 98-99.
 * Medical center, Lebanon, New Hampshire – Architecture (March, 1993): 91-93.
 * Medical center, Lebanon, New Hampshire – Journal of Architectural Education (November, 1994): 94-95.
 * Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles – Architectural Record (May, 1995): 31-33.
 * Music library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut – Architectural Record (May, 1998): 239-244.
 * Library center, Emory University, Atlanta – Architectural Record (October, 1998): 162-163.
 * Memorial hospital addition, Worcester – Building Design & Construction (June, 1998): 58-62.
 * United States courthouse, Concord, New Hampshire – Architectural Record (March, 1999): 122-125.
 * Music library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut – Interiors (August, 1999): 60-63.
 * Butler library, Columbia University, New York City – Interiors (March, 2000): 76-81.
 * Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York – Building Design & Construction (May, 2007): 81-83.