Herbert R. Hunt Explained

Herbert R. Hunt
Nationality:American
Birth Date:1885
Birth Place:Lowell, Massachusetts
Death Date:1961
Death Place:Providence, Rhode Island
Significant Buildings:Rosedale Apartments

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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Notes and References

  1. 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.