{{short description|American architect}} thumb|Joseph L. Neal, circa 1896. '''Joseph Ladd Neal''' (1867–?) was an American architect who designed Richardsonian Romanesque, Shingle Style and Colonial Revival buildings.
Born in Wiscasset, Maine, the son of a hardware merchant, he apprenticed under Boston, Massachusetts architect Charles Howard Walker. He worked for Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in Boston and James Renwick Jr. in New York City, before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about 1892. In 1893 he established a partnership with S. Alfred Hopkins, that lasted a year. A partnership with George M. Rowland lasted from 1902 to 1906.<ref>[http://www.smallpointclub.com/History.pdf Joseph Ladd Neal at Small Point] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021025148/http://smallpointclub.com/History.pdf |date=2013-10-21 }} from Small Point Club.</ref>
Four of his works – Lithgow Public Library, Merrill Memorial Library, College Hill Station, Small Point Club – are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
==Selected works== *Lithgow Library and Reading Room, Augusta, Maine, 1894–96, with S. Alfred Hopkins. Neal & Hopkins won the commission in a national design competition with 65 submissions.<ref>"Architects Neal & Hopkins," in ''The Lithgow Library and Reading Room'' (Augusta, ME: 1897), pp. 142-43.[https://archive.org/stream/lithgowlibraryre00lithrich#page/n229/mode/2up]</ref> *First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, c. 1895. *Small Point Club, Small Point, Maine, 1895-97.<ref>''A Centennial History of the Small Point Club'' (Bath, ME: 1997).</ref><ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/nrhp Small Point Club] from NRHP.</ref> *Morrill Memorial Library, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1897-98.<ref>[https://mmlhistory.blogspot.com/p/morrill-memorial-library-finely.html 1897 description of Morrill Memorial Library]</ref> A near-replica of Neal's Lithgow Library. *Alterations to Beaver County Courthouse, Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1901. *James Lyall Stuart house, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, c. 1905, with George M. Rowland.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044041/http://old.post-gazette.com/homes/20030426sewickley0426p3.asp "Homes with a History"] from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.</ref> *College Hill Station (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad), Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1910, John Abiel Atwood, engineer. <gallery> File:The Lithgow Library, Augusta, ME.jpg|Lithgow Public Library, Augusta, Maine (1894–96). File:1899 Norwood public library Massachusetts.png|Merrill Memorial Library, Norwood, Massachusetts (1897–98). File:College hill station.JPG|College Hill Station, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (1910). </gallery>
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