Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul

Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul was an American architectural firm founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1885 by Robert Day Andrews, Herbert Jaques and Augustus Day Rantoul.^[1] The firm designed numerous buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Their works include:

• The Hartford Club (1901), Hartford, Connecticut,^[2] of which Mark Twain was a member
• The Equitable Building (1892), Denver, Colorado^[3]
• Gov. Frank West Rollins House (1890), Concord, New Hampshire
• The Hooper Mansion (1889), Boston, home of the Boston branch of the Church of Scientology^[4]

Robert Day Andrews was a draftsman under Henry Hobson Richardson^[2] before co-founding Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul. His subsequent firm, Chapman, Sturgis & Andrews, designed the white marble wings of the Massachusetts State House in 1914-1917.^[5]

Despite many listings as Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul, even during the years they operated, the firm name is correctly spelled: Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul.

References

1. Philadelphia Architects and Buildings: Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul
2. David F. Ransom (January 19, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Hartford Club" (PDF). National Park Service. and Accompanying photo from 1982
3. "Denver, Colorado: The Equitable Building," bluffton.edu
4. Southworth, Susan and Michael, AIA Guide to Boston, Third Edition, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2008, p. 172-173.
5. Southworth, Susan and Michael, AIA Guide to Boston, Third Edition, Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2008, p. 5.