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The firm Adden founded lasted for thirty years after his retirement. In 1959, after the deaths of Adden and Parker, the firm was renamed Clinch, Crimp, Brown & Fisher, the new partners being Arthur Wilbur Brown and
Herbert Robson Fisher Jr. Howard T. Clinch died December 24, 1965, and the firm
240:. Adden was an especially popular architect in his hometown of Reading, where he designed the high school, town hall, public library and several churches. In 1929 they expanded the partnership to include Howard T. Clinch (1889–1965) and
275:, which he had restored for a different client six years earlier. In 1918 he moved again, to the David Pratt house on Woburn Street. Where in his past renovations Adden had been careful to respect the old Colonial architecture, at the
279:-era Pratt house he created an elaborate Federal Revival fantasy, the most complex example of the style in Reading. In retirement he lived in a relatively new house on King Street. Adden died June 14, 1958, in a hospital in
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244:(1899–1990), the firm being renamed Adden, Parker, Clinch & Crimp. The new partners introduced elements of modern design into the firm's work. Adden retired from practice in the 1940s.
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Ossian Wilbur Goss Reading Room NRHP Registration Form
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177:Willard Parker Adden was born April 9, 1868, in
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857:"Edward Clinch, Architect, 76; Rites private,"
621:Everett Avenue–Sheffield Road Historic District
376:Old South United Methodist Church, 6 Salem St,
768:(Boston: George H. Walker & Company, 1895)
753:Commonwealth of Massachusetts Official Gazette
418:David Pratt house restoration, 217 Woburn St,
411:Reading Public Library (former), 6 Lowell St,
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462:Melrose Savings Bank Building, 476 Main St,
134:The former Melrose Savings Bank Building in
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686:Little Boar's Head Historic District
297:National Register of Historic Places
673:Western Promenade Historic District
647:Shawsheen Village Historic District
538:Stoneham Town Hall, 35 Central St,
383:Roosevelt School, 155 Lowndes Ave,
1334:People from Reading, Massachusetts
1137:Historic Building Detail: BEV.1132
1125:Historic Building Detail: NBE.2619
953:8, no. 10 (October 1911): 365–370.
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1149:Historic Building Detail: REA.117
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1103:64, no. 2 (August 1928): 140–143.
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545:David Walton house, 310 Kent St,
404:Reading Town Hall, 16 Lowell St,
397:Fred Clark house, 6 Everett Ave,
18:Adden, Parker, Clinch & Crimp
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455:restoration, 103 Washington St,
258:American Institute of Architects
102:The former Cochituate School in
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597:Adden's home from 1916 to 1918.
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472:(former), 71 Mount Auburn St,
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515:North Hampton, New Hampshire
1097:"Four Remodeled Houses" in
369:restoration, 55 Walnut St,
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399:Winchester, Massachusetts
254:Boston Architectural Club
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846:Progressive Architecture
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883:"Philip John Todisco,"
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226:Wheelwright & Haven
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513:house, 58 Ocean Blvd,
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481:Reading, Massachusetts
464:Melrose, Massachusetts
457:Reading, Massachusetts
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430:Andover, Massachusetts
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385:Huntington, New York
367:William Parker House
347:Huntington, New York
333:Eaton–Prescott House
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273:William Parker House
269:Eaton–Prescott House
191:Springfield, Vermont
150:, completed in 1935.
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1324:1958 deaths
1319:1868 births
844:"Notices,"
281:Northampton
265:New Bedford
81:Nationality
1303:Categories
722:References
234:Beaux-Arts
205:(1900) in
89:Occupation
48:1868-04-09
542:(1938–39)
524:(1934–35)
517:(1930–32)
449:(1923–25)
432:(1922–23)
415:(1917–18)
408:(1916–18)
401:(1915–16)
394:(1914–16)
380:(1911–13)
356:(1909–11)
329:(1905–06)
312:(1905–06)
148:Topsfield
92:Architect
84:American
277:Federal
187:drafter
136:Melrose
116:Reading
104:Wayland
911:(1986)
780:(1980)
549:(1939)
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500:(1930)
490:(1928)
476:(1927)
466:(1926)
439:(1922)
422:(1918)
363:(1910)
349:(1908)
287:Legacy
167:Boston
554:Notes
63:Died
42:Born
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