Re: (rshsdepot) Stockbridge, MA depot architect

[Ivan Berger <oldmaven_@_comcast.net>]

jdent1_@_optonline.net wrote:

> Please read the 3 emails below regarding the architect of the Stockbridge depot.  Does anyone have more information or sources for information on Frank Waller, or for the assertions of which architect designed the depot?
>
> > Jim:  the book is wrong; it definitely was not done by MM&W but by
> > Frank Waller.  An article in the American Architect and Building
> > News includes a
> > drawing of the station signed by Waller and the local newspaper
> > contains many articles about the building of the station and the
> > architect, Frank
> > Waller.  It has been a hope of some Stockbridge residents that
> > Stanford White was responsible for the station, as he had done
> > other buildings in
> > town but unfortunately, it was the unknown Waller.  Joan Olshansky

That reminds me: anyone know who designed the stations in Naugatuck and Waterbury CT?  Naugatuck had a great many MM&W buildings for its size (high school, church, bridge, 2 mansions and a bank that I know of), but
Waterbury's seems more likely to have been by MM&W.

Ivan Berger
Fanwood, NJ


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