{{short description|American architect}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Edwin Dodge | image = Edwin Sherrill Dodge (1874–1938), c. 1920.png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Edwin Sherrill Dodge | birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|10|25}} | birth_place = Newburyport, Massachusetts, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1938|12|10|1874|10|25}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, US | burial_place = | occupation = Architect | awards = | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Mabel Dodge Luhan|November 1904|June 1916|end=div.}} * {{Marriage|Margaret Harrison Child|1920}} }} | children = | education = {{Plainlist| * Harvard College * Massachusetts Institute of Technology * École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts }} | signature = | party = }} '''Edwin Sherrill Dodge''' (October 25,1874 – December 10, 1938) was an American architect.
== Personal background == thumb|left|150px|As a Harvard undergraduate, {{Circa|1895}}
Dodge was born into a wealthy family of Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of the manufacturer Elisha Perkins Dodge and Katherine Searles Gray Dodge. He earned an A.B. degree at Harvard College in 1895.<ref name=Anniversary>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBhOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 |title=Harvard College Class of 1895 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report |publisher=Harvard University Press |place=Cambridge, Massachusetts |page=109 |date=1920 |access-date=2024-09-28 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He studied architecture at MIT, graduating in 1897.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V17/PDF/N4.pdf |title=Alumni Notes |journal=The Tech |volume=17 |issue=4 |page=35 |date=October 28, 1897 |access-date=2010-10-28}}</ref> In 1902, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
In November 1904, Dodge married art patron and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan, then known as Mabel Ganson Evans. Their unconventional marriage is described in her autobiographies ''Intimate Memories'' and ''European Experiences''. The couple also appear in Gertrude Stein's ''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas''.
In Arcetri, near Florence, they lived in the Villa Curonia and undertook extensive, expensive renovations that consumed their incomes for years;<ref>Campbell, Katie. ''Paradise of exiles: the Anglo-American gardens of Florence''</ref> the house "drank money".<ref>Adickes, Sandra E. ''To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York Before the First World War'', page 64</ref> They continued to live together, more or less, in Florence until 1911, when Dodge returned to the U.S. and established architectural offices in New York and Boston. After a long separation and scandal, their divorce was finalized in June 1916.
Dodge married Margaret Harrison Child in 1920, and remained married until his death in Boston on December 10, 1938.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-death-notices-dodge/156156500/ |title=Death Notices: Dodge |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=17 |date=1938-12-12 |access-date=2024-09-28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Professional background == In 1914, Dodge partnered with John Worthington Ames (1871–1954), who had trained at Harvard and at the École des Beaux-Arts. Together, they formed the architectural firm of Ames & Dodge.
Dodge's architectural designs include:
* Newburyport High School, Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1937 * Ellen T. Brown Memorial Chapel, Oak Hill Cemetery, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1914<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.newburyportchamber.org/pdf/navigator_march.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery |journal=The Navigator |volume=15 |issue=3 |page=12 |date=March 2008 |access-date=October 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704140713/http://www.newburyportchamber.org/pdf/navigator_March.pdf |archive-date=2009-07-04 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Edwin Booth Memorial, with sculptor Edmond Thomas Quinn, Gramercy Park, New York City, 1918<ref>Kyle, Howard. ''The history of the Edwin Booth memorial: April 2nd to November 13th, 1918''</ref> * Hartford Fire Insurance Company Building, Asylum Hill, Hartford, Connecticut, 1921 * multiple buildings in the quadrangle at Smith College, as Ames, Dodge & Putnam, 1922–1936<ref>Dimitrova, Bilyana and Margaret Birney Vickery. ''Smith college: an architectural tour''</ref> * Cabot Hall at Cabot House, now part of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936<ref>Bunting, Bainbridge and Margaret Henderson Floyd. ''Harvard: An Architectural History'', page 140</ref> * Lotta Fountain, Charles River Esplanade, Boston, Massachusetts, with sculptor Katherine Lane Weems, 1939 * Bennington Commons and the 12 original student houses, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1931 - 1937<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bennington.edu/timeline/index.html |title=Index |website=www.bennington.edu |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512173030/http://www.bennington.edu/timeline/index.html |archive-date=12 May 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Newburyport High School.jpg|Newburyport High School (c. 1937), Newburyport, Massachusetts File:Gramercy-park-2007.jpg|Edwin Booth Memorial (1918), Gramercy Park, New York City File:Cabot Hall.jpg|Cabot Hall (1936), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts File:Lotta Fountain - IMG 3787.jpg|Lotta Fountain (1939), Boston, Massachusetts File:Bennington_College_Commons_Building_Floor_Plan.jpg | Commons Floor Plan Bennington College (1931 - 1937) Bennington, Vermont </gallery>
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