Stephen C. Earle

Stephen Carpenter Earle (January 4, 1839 – December 12, 1913)^[1] was an architect who designed a number buildings in Massachusetts and Connecticut that were built in the late 19th century, with many in Worcester, Massachusetts. For a time he worked with architect James E. Fuller, under the firm "Earle & Fuller", and later with Clellan W. Fisher under "Earle & Fisher",

He designed university buildings, commercial buildings, churches, and more. Among his university buildings are:

• Clark University, Clark University campus, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Mears Hall, Grinnell College campus, Grinnell, Iowa
• Goodnow Hall, Grinnell College campus, Grinnell, Iowa
• Old Chapel, University of Massachusetts campus, Amherst, Massachusetts

Selected works

Worcester, Massachusetts

• Armsby Block, 144-148 Main St.
• Bancroft Tower, Bancroft Tower Rd. (Earle & Fisher)
• Hope Cemetery, 119 Webster St.
• John Legg House, 5 Claremont St.
• One or more structures in Oxford-Crown Historic District, Roughly bounded by Chatham, Congress, Crown, Pleasant, Oxford Sts. and Oxford Pl.
• Pilgrim Congregational Church, 909 Main St.
• Providence Street Firehouse, 98 Providence St. (Earle & Fisher)
• Salisbury Factory Building 2, 49-51 Union St.
• South Unitarian Church, 888 Main St. (Earle & Fisher)
• St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Worcester, Massachusetts), Freeland St., a Romanesque building built in 1888, listed on the NRHP^[2]
• St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (Worcester, Massachusetts), 693 Southbridge St. (Earle & Fisher)
• D. Wheeler Swift House, 22 Oak Ave.
• Union Congregational Church, 5 Chestnut St. (Earle,Stephen & C. Fisher)
• One or more structures in Washburn Square-Leicester Common Historic District, Main St., Washburn Sq., 3 Paxton St. Leicester MA (Earle & Fisher)
• Whitcomb House, 51 Harvard St.
• Whitcomb Mansion, 51 Harvard St.
• Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank, 316 Main St.
• Leicester Public Library, 1136 Main Street, Leicester, MA

Other Massachusetts

• Lyon Memorial Library (Monson Free Library), 2 High St., Monson, Massachusetts
• One or more structures in Princeton Center Historic District, Jct. of Hubbardston and Mountain Rds., Princeton, Massachusetts
• Old Chapel, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Rock Castle School, Prospect St., Webster, Massachusetts, (Earle & Fuller)

Connecticut

• Carroll Building, 9-15 Main St., and 14-20 Water St., Norwich, Connecticut, a building built in 1887, listed on the National Register of Historic Places^[2]
• Slater Library and Fanning Annex, 26 Main St., Griswold, Connecticut
• Slater Memorial Museum, said to be perhaps his finest work.
• Park Congregational Church^[3]

References