Résumé

Partner, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, Boston, MA, 1924-1952.

Managing Partner, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, Boston, MA, 1936-1952.

Partner, Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, Abbott, Boston, MA, 1952-1962.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Boston Society for Architecture, Boston, MA.

Member, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA.

Member, Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, New York, NY.

Trustee, American Academy at Rome, Rome, Italy.

Member, US Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 1936-1940.

Vice-chairman, US Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 1938-1940.

Member, US Department of the Treasury, Advisory Commission, Washington, DC.

Member, US Department of State, Advisory Commission, Washington, DC.

Member, US Department of War, Advisory Commission, Washington, DC.

Member, Architect of the US Capitol, Advisory Commission, Washington, DC.

Member, US Public Works Administration, Federal Projects Division, Advisory Commission, Washington, DC.

Professioonal Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.

Elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.

Recipient, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal, New York, NY, 1958.

Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York, NY.

Recipient, New York Architectural League Medal, New York, NY, 1933.

Recipient, French Government, Legion of Honor, Paris, France, 1953.

College

A.B., Harvard University, Boston, MA, 1910.

Dipl., École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 1914.

Relocation

Henry Richardson Shepley was born in Brookline, MA, on 05/01/1887.

Shepley lived at 99 Warren Street, Brookline, MA, in 1942.

The architect died at his residence on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and was buried in the Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, MA. (See "Henry Richardson Shepley," Kennebec Journal, 11/27/1962, p. 11.)

Parents

His father was the architect George Foster Shepley, Sr., (1861-1903), who, at one time, worked for architect H.H. Richardson (1838-1886), his maternal grandfather.

Spouse

He was married to Anna Lowell Draper (born 1890 in Newton, MA-d. 1972) on 09/14/1919 in Gardiner, ME. She was 29 at the time, and this was her second marriage. Her first husbad was Roger Francis Draper (born 04/14/1890 in Atcham, Shropshire, England-d. 08/22/1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey), a Captain in the British Army's Sixth York and Lancashire Regiment, who was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula during the ill-fated Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-1916.

Biographical Notes

SSN: 034-28-3264.