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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."Notes Concerning Federal Government Building" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Architectural_Forum/RyQNsqBYL5gC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Architectural Forum] 28, no. 6 (June 1918): 219. With Leland thus busy and Loring serving in the A. E. F., the project was completed by another architect, Francis Y. Joannes.Henry V. Hubbard, "Some Preliminary Considerations in Government Industrial War Housing" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Landscape_Architecture/2vfmAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Landscape Architecture] 8, no. 4 (July 1918): 157-168. When the United States Housing Corporation was formed later the same year, Leland was appointed vice president."U. S. Housing Corp. Formed" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Builder/erNXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Builder] 25, no. 5 (August 1918): 44. In 1919 both men returned to Boston and dissolved their partnership."Personals and Business Notices" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Contractor/rSxYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Contractor] 40, no. 20 (May 17 1919): 37. Among Leland's first independent works was a group of sixty houses for the Worcester Housing Corporation in Worcester, Massachusetts, commissioned in 1919."Building News" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Architect/DgZaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Architect] 116, no. 2275 (July 30 1919): 16.

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){{efn|name=Stone|Stone was the elder brother and mentor of architect Edward Durell Stone.}} 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.Boston directories Larsen died in 1974, and Bradley in 1990.

• Francis Buttrick Library, Waltham, Massachusetts (1914-15, NRHP 1989)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WLT.487 WLT.487]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Worker housing for the American Optical Company, Southbridge, Massachusetts (1915, NRHP 1989)
• Farms Branch of the Beverly Public Library, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts (1916)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=BEV.221 BEV.221]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• House for Malcolm Donald, Milton, Massachusetts (1916)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=MLT.383 MLT.383]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• New Holland Inn, New Holland, North Carolina (1916, demolished 1936)"Building News" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Industrial_Development_and_Manufacturers/zmk9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Manufacturers Record] 69, no. 1 (January 6 1916): 78.
• Whitin Machine Works Office Building, Whitinsville, Massachusetts (1917)"Massachusetts" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Contractor/-zRYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Contractor] 38, no. 29 (July 21 1917): 46.
• W. C. C. S. Soldiers Club, Ayer, Massachusetts (1918, temporary building)"Recreation Buildings for Officers and Men at the National Army Cantonments" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Architectural_Forum/fBrnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Architectural Forum] 29, no. 2 (August 1918): 41-48.

• "The Pink House" for Lawrence M. Keeler, Jamestown, Rhode Island (1919-20)Walter A. Nebiker and David Chase, Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, Rhode Island (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission, 1995): 100.

• 531 Main Street Building, Worcester, Massachusetts (1921)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WOR.774 WOR.774]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 21, 2022.
• Kennebunk Town Hall,{{efn|name=Kennebunk|A contributing property to the Kennebunk Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1974.}} Kennebunk, Maine (1921)"Plate Illustrations" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Architectural_Forum/eCoNAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Architectural Forum] 37, no. 3 (September 1922)
• "Pride's Hill" for Q. A. Shaw McKean and Margarett Sargent, Beverly, Massachusetts (1921 et seq., NRHP 1990)Frank Chouteau Brown, "A House That Grew" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Architectural_Record/JoASTW3hZhsC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Architectural Record] 59, no. 3 (March 1926): 201-214."[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=BEV.444 BEV.444]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• 20 West Street Building,{{efn|name=West|A contributing property to the West Street District, NRHP-listed in 1980.}} Boston (1922)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=BOS.2342 BOS.2342]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 21, 2022.
• B. F. Brown Junior High School (former), Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1922)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=FIT.158 FIT.158]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Whitin Community Center,{{efn|name=Whitin|A contributing property to the Whitinsville Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1983.}} Whitinsville, Massachusetts (1922-23)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=NBD.329 NBD.329]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Worcester East Middle School, Worcester, Massachusetts (1922-24)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WOR.2289 WOR.2289]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• 30 Federal Street Building, Boston (1924)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=BOS.1717 BOS.1717]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 21, 2022.
• Plymouth Memorial Hall,{{efn|name=Little|Designed in association with architects Little & Russell.}} Plymouth, Massachusetts (1924-25)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=PLY.1354 PLY.1354]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Washington Street School (former), Hanson, Massachusetts (1924)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=HNS.12 HNS.12]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• 81 Beacon Street Apartments, Boston (1925)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=BOS.4122 BOS.4122]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 21, 2022.
• New Hampshire Savings Bank Building,{{efn|name=Griffin|Designed in association with Concord architect George W. Griffin.}} Concord, New Hampshire (1926-27, NRHP 1988)[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/88000658 New Hampshire Savings Bank Building NRHP Registration Form] (1988)
• Woburn Co-operative Bank Building, Woburn, Massachusetts (1926)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WOB.64 WOB.64]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Concord High School,{{efn|name=Griffin}} Concord, New Hampshire (1927)"Architects for Educational Buildings" in American School and University 5 (1932)
• "Hill House" for Herbert Scoville,{{efn|name=Scoville|Later the home of Herbert Scoville Jr. and usually known as the Scoville Estate.}} Salisbury, Connecticut (1927)
• "Seven Pines" for Keith Mcleod, Wenham, Massachusetts (1927)Amanda Ostuni, "[https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/storied-henry-audesse-mansion-and-all-its-treasures-to-be-auctioned/article_f6236150-1f78-524e-b668-d87de455ec7b.html Storied Henry Audesse mansion and all its treasures to be auctioned]," salemnews.com, Salem News, June 29, 2016, accessed January 21, 2022.
• Hotel Hixon, North Attleborough, Massachusetts (1928)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=NAL.85 NAL.85]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Browne School, Watertown, Massachusetts (1929-30, demolished)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WAT.9 WAT.9]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Higgins Armory Museum (former), Worcester, Massachusetts (1929-31, NRHP 1980)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=WOR.138 WOR.138]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Levi Z. Thomas School (former), Hanson, Massachusetts (1929)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=HNS.7 HNS.7]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• "La Tourelle" for Pierpont L. Stackpole,{{efn|name=Stackpole|Replaced, and built on the foundations of, Kragsyde.}} Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1929, demolished)"Joseph Daniels Leland" in Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report (Cambridge: Harvard University Class of 1909, 1934): 376-377.
• Tyler House, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1930-32)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=AMH.466 AMH.466]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• Pittsfield High School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts (1931)Domestic Engineering 138, no. 5 (March 5 1932): 82.
• Clifton Merriman Post Office Building,{{efn|name=Greco|Designed in association with architect Charles R. Greco. A contributing property to the Central Square Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1990.}} Cambridge, Massachusetts (1933-35, NRHP 1986)"[https://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=CAM.232 CAM.232]." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 14, 2022.
• 1927 – Central Maine Power Company office building, 9 Green St, Augusta, MaineMorton C. Tuttle, "Architects, Costs and Contractors" in Architectural Forum 48, no. 2 (February, 1928): 285-287.

• 1937 – Arlmont Village, MA-2, Lexington, MassachusettsJ. B. Mason, "Ford Methods Bring Lower Cost in New 425-Home Boston Development" in American Builder 59, no. 2 (February, 1937): 42-44 and 116.
• 1939 – United Shoe Machinery Building, 2200 Washington Ave, St. Louis[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/07000619 United Shoe Machinery Building NRHP Registration Form] (2007)
• NRHP-listed
• 1943 – Southview Housing, Springfield, Vermont[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/07001171 Southview Housing Historic District NRHP Registration Form] (2007)
• NRHP-listed
• 1943 – Westview Housing, Springfield, Vermont
• 1947 – Bonwit Teller department store, 234 Berkeley St, Boston"Exit Taxidermist, Enter Couturier" in Interiors 107, no. 4 (November 1947): 82-87.
• 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[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=lex.1631 LEX.1631]
• Demolished
• 1949 – Deering Hall, University of Maine, Orono, Maine
• 1949 – W. T. Grant department store, 260 Westminster St, Providence, Rhode IslandWilliam McKenzie Woodward, Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-P-5: Downtown Providence (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1981): 64.
• 1950 – W. T. Grant department store, 350 Essex St, Lawrence, MassachusettsEngineering News-Record 137, no. 15 (October 10, 1946): 27.
• 1950 – Milton Hospital, 92 Highland St, Milton, Massachusetts[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=mlt.1089 MLT.1089]
• 1951 – East Lexington Fire Station, 998 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, Massachusetts[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=lex.1630 LEX.1630]
• 1951 – Jimmy Fund Building of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, 43 Binney St, Boston[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=bos.17828 BOS.17828]
• Expanded in 1957
• 1951 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston gallery additions, 465 Huntington Ave, BostonWalter Muir Whitehill, [https://archive.org/details/museumoffinearts0002whit/page/n5/mode/2up Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History] 2 (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1970): 521-522.
• 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"Color is important here" in Library Journal 79, no. 4 (February 15, 1954): 298-299.
• 1954 – Memorial Building, 520 Cabot St, Beverly, Massachusetts[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=bev.1117 BEV.1117]
• Demolished
• 1955 – North Adams Hospital, 71 Hospital Ave, North Adams, MassachusettsEngineering News-Record 151, no. 11 (September 10, 1953): 109.

• 1956 – Scituate High School, 94 Trimtown Rd, Scituate, Rhode IslandEngineering News-Record 154, no. 26 (June 30, 1955): 64.
• 1958 – Clark Building, Medfield State Hospital, Medfield, Massachusetts[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=med.151 MED.151]
• Demolished
• 1958 – Copley Hospital, 528 Washington Hwy, Morrisville, Vermont"This 38-Bed Hospital is Being Built for $18 Per Square Foot" in Hospitals 32, no. 13 (July 1, 1958): 46-47.
• 1959 – Boston Herald-Traveler Building, 300 Harrison Ave, Boston"Boston H-T Plant Began in South End" in Editor and Publisher 90, no. 43 (October 19, 1957): 13.
• Demolished

• 1960 – Washburn Hall, Episcopal Divinity School (former campus), Cambridge, MassachusettsKeith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
• 1965 – Hafer Academic Building, Curry College, Milton, Massachusetts[https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=mlt.n MLT.N]

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

• 1968 – Colony Retirement Homes, 485 Grove St, Worcester, Massachusetts"Sprout, William Bradford, Jr." in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 868.
• Consulting architects to William Bradford Sprout Jr.

• 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)

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