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.

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.

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

College

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

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

Relocation

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 on 09/14/1919 in Gardiner, ME. She was 29 at the time, and this was her second marriage. Her first husband had died. Anna was born in Newton, MA.

Biographical Notes

SSN: 034-28-3264.