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Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul

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Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul
Company typeArchitectural firm
IndustryArchitecture
Founded1883
FounderRobert Day Andrews, Herbert Jaques, Augustus Neal Rantoul
Defunct1970
Headquarters
Boston
,
United States
Area served
United States
Key people
Robert Day Andrews, Herbert Jaques, Augustus Neal Rantoul, I. Howland Jones, Maurice B. Biscoe, John Whitmore, Edwin B. Goodell Jr.

Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul was an architectural practice based in Boston, established in 1883 by Robert Day Andrews, Herbert Jaques, and Augustus Neal Rantoul. The firm operated without interruption for eighty-seven years until 1970, earning a distinguished reputation within the American architectural landscape. Their portfolio encompassed a wide array of styles including Châteauesque, Italian Renaissance Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Neoclassical, and Colonial Revival, primarily serving institutional and commercial clients. Leadership figures such as founding partners Robert Day Andrews and Herbert Jaques, along with later principals I. Howland Jones and Maurice B. Biscoe, played pivotal roles in guiding the firm's growth and strategic direction.

Situated in Boston, the company leveraged its location to thrive in a competitive regional market, securing high-profile commissions like Denver’s Equitable Building alongside numerous educational and civic projects. Their body of work reflects a substantial influence on the market through landmark constructions such as the Worcester County Courthouse and the Hartford Club. The firm’s enduring success was fueled by its ability to adapt to evolving architectural trends and forge strategic collaborations, ensuring its continued prominence over multiple decades within the dynamic U.S. architecture sector.

History

The origins of the firm trace back to July 1883 when it was founded as Andrews & Jaques by Robert Day Andrews (1857–1928) and Herbert Jaques (1857–1916), both alumni of MIT’s class of 1877 who had apprenticed under Henry Hobson Richardson. August N. Rantoul (1865–1934) joined the partnership in 1887, leading to the renaming of the firm as Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul in 1889.

This partnership remained intact until Jaques retired in 1909; his interest was succeeded by Howland Jones (1868–1959). Following Jaques’s passing in 1916, the firm adopted the name Andrews, Rantoul & Jones. Upon Rantoul’s retirement in 1924, Maurice B. Biscoe (1871–1953) and John Whitmore (1893–1943) entered the partnership, resulting in Andrews, Jones, Biscoe & Whitmore.

Despite Andrews’s death in 1928, the firm retained its name. After Whitmore died in 1943, Edwin B. Goodell Jr. (1893–1970) became a partner and the firm was rebranded as Andrews, Jones, Biscoe & Goodell. Following the deaths of Biscoe in 1953 and Jones’s retirement in 1955, Goodell continued practicing under his own name until 1970.

A branch office was launched in Denver in 1888; it moved to Chicago in 1892 but ceased operations shortly after relocation.

Legacy

The firm is credited with designing numerous structures now recognized on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. While their name is often misspelled, the accurate designation remains Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul.

Boston and Massachusetts

  • 1887 — William Brewster residence, Cambridge
    • Included within the NRHP-listed Old Cambridge Historic District.
  • 1887 — Richard Henry Dana III residence, Cambridge
    • Contributes to Old Cambridge Historic District’s NRHP status.
  • 1889 — Robert C. Hooper residence, Boston
    • Part of the NRHP-listed Back Bay Historic District.
  • 1889 — Josiah Royce residence, Cambridge
    • Later home of Julia Child (1961–2001); located within Shady Hill Historic District (NRHP).
  • 1890 — Roughwood estate, Chestnut Hill
    • Now part of Pine Manor College (currently Messina College); listed on NRHP.
  • 1892 — Boston Lying-in Hospital (no longer standing)
  • 1893 — Paine Estate, Chestnut Hill
    • Recognized on NRHP.
  • 1893 — "Japanese House" for Bunkio Matsuki, Salem
  • 1895 — Brookline High School (destroyed by fire in 1936)
  • 1898 — Godfrey Lowell Cabot residence, Cambridge
  • 1898 — Worcester County Courthouse
    • Listed on NRHP within Institutional District.
  • 1899 — Former Newton Centre United Methodist Church
  • 1900 — Lorin F. Deland and Margaret Deland residence, Boston
  • 1900 — Muller Building, Boston
    • Included in NRHP-listed Custom House District.
  • 1900 — Henry Woods High School (currently Henry Woods Municipal Building), Barre
  • 1901 — Former Jamaica Plain High School
    • Situated inside NRHP-listed Sumner Hill Historic District.
  • 1902 — State Mutual Life Assurance Company Building, Boston
    • Presently serves as an office building at 50 Congress Street.
  • 1905 — Robert Day Andrews residence, Brookline
    • Part of NRHP-listed Fisher Hill Historic District.
  • 1905 — House of the Good Samaritan, Boston (demolished in 1979)
  • 1906 — Haverhill Armory (now Haverhill Firefighting Museum)
  • 1907 — Former Charlestown Armory
  • 1908 — Hornblower & Weeks building, Boston
  • 1911 — Peerless Motor Car Company building, Boston
    • Foundation for the Boston Citgo sign.
  • 1912 — Nahant Town Hall
    • Included within NRHP-listed Nahant Civic Historic District.
  • 1913 — Dexter Building, Boston
  • 1917 — F. Jewett Moore residence, Cambridge
    • Currently houses Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
  • 1921 — William L. S. Brayton residence, Fall River
    • Now used as Fall River School Administration Building.
  • 1921 — Ipswich Memorial Hall
  • 1922 — Former Bancroft School, Worcester
    • Later Becker College until closure in 2021.
  • 1926-1929 — Multiple edifices at Tufts University including Blakeley Hall, Braker Hall, Stratton Hall; also Cousens Gymnasium (1932), which was entered into architecture competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
  • 1929 — Alpha Delta Phi fraternity house at Amherst
    • Currently Hitchcock Residence Hall at Amherst College.
  • 1934 — Salem Public Library North Branch (closed as library in 1977; currently offices)
  • 1938 — Winslow Academic Center at Lasell University
  • 1941 — Memorial Chapel at Newton Cemetery
  • 1950 — Salvation Army Building in Boston (razed for Liberty Mutual Tower construction in 2011)
  • 1954 — Memorial Spaulding School located at Oak Hill

Elsewhere in New England

Elsewhere in the United States

  • 1888 — Westport Library in Westport, New York
  • 1890 — Boston Building, located in Denver
    • Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • 1891 — Equitable Building in Des Moines, Iowa
    • Later referred to as Bankers Trust Building following construction of a second Equitable Building in 1924; subsequently demolished.
  • 1891 — Montgomery Building in Milwaukee
    • No longer standing; demolished.
  • 1892 — Equitable Building in Denver
    • Recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • 1894 — N. P. Coburn Library at Colorado College in Colorado Springs
    • Demolished in 1962.
  • 1896 — Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit
    • Razed in 1971.
  • 1904 — Palmer Hall at Colorado College in Colorado Springs
    • Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • 1908 — Taylor House in Columbia, South Carolina
    • Served as Columbia Museum of Art from 1950 to 1998; currently part of University of South Carolina’s Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Registered on the NRHP.
  • 1918 — Locke Ledge estate in Yorktown Heights, New York
    • Owned by Lydia Locke and Arthur Hudson Marks; destroyed by fire in 1966.
  • 1937 — Palmer Hall at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey

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