Edward F. Stevens

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Edward Fletcher Stevens (1860–1946) was an American architect and author.[1][2][3] He partnered with Frederick Clare Lee to form Stevens & Lee. The firm designed hospitals in the U.S. and Canada[4] including Hôpital Notre-Dame in Montreal; Ottawa Civic Hospital; St. Joseph's Hospital, Toronto; and portions of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. They worked in Boston and Toronto from 1912 to 1933.[5]

Stevens graduated with an architecture degree from MIT in 1883.[5] He worked for Allen and Kenway in Boston in 1889 and for McKim, Mead and White in 1890. He partnered with Henry H. Kendall to form Kendall and Stevens (1890–95); Kendall, Taylor, and Stevens (1895–1909) (with Bertrand E. Taylor; Kendall, Stevens, and Lee (1909–12); and formed his own firm Stevens and Lee (1912–33) with Frederick Clare Lee.[5]

Stevens became a member of the Province of Quebec Association of Architects in 1914 and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1923[5] During World War I he was a civilian specialist with the Army Engineers designing of hospitals abroad.[5] After the war he served on a special committee tasked with revising the design of U.S. Army hospitals. He authored books on institutional design including The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century.

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Frederick Clare Lee studied at Yale University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1897–1902). He was a partner in the firms Kendall, Stevens, and Lee (1909–12) and Stevens and Lee (1912–33).

Bibliography[edit]

  • The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century Illustrated Architectural Record Publishing, New York

References[edit]

  1. ^ Stevens, Edward F. (12 October 2018). "Review of The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century". The American Journal of Nursing. 19 (6): 488. doi:10.2307/3406190. JSTOR 3406190.
  2. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (9 June 2010). AIA Guide to New York City. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199772919 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ The American Journal of Nursing Vol. 19, No. 6, Mar., 1919
  4. ^ "Lee, Frederick Clare - Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada". dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org.
  5. ^ a b c d e bios McGill

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