Newhall & Blevins
Architecture firm in Massachusetts, USA
Newhall & Blevins was an American architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, active from 1903 to 1933. It was the partnership of architects Louis C. Newhall (1869–1925) and Albert H. Blevins (1874–1946). Newhall established a practice alone in 1901, forming his partnership with Blevins in 1903. They were partners until 1919, and remained associated until the death of Newhall in 1925. After Newhall's death, the firm was reorganized as Newhall & Blevins Inc. with John W. Reth (1888–1940) as president and treasurer. Reth was an engineer and construction supervisor who had been with Newhall & Blevins for several years. The firm was dissolved in 1933, apparently due to financial troubles.
Biographies of founders
Louis C. Newhall
Louis Chapell Newhall was born April 17, 1869, in Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Malden High School and attended Tufts College before entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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