Edward F. Stevens

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 Hopital Notre-Dame, 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.

Partner

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
  • The American Hospital of the Twentieth Century Illustrated Architectural Record Publishing, New York
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References
  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. bios McGill

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