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Richardson (WILLIAM CUM- MINGS an American)

WILLIAM CUM- MINGS, an American architect, born at Concord, N. H., in 1854. After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1873 to 1875, he worked as an assistant in various architectural offices and made several trips abroad for further study. In 1881 he became a member of a firm of architects in Boston, which soon became one of the leading architectural firms in the United States. He designed many public and RICHEBOURG private structures, most of them in New England, and including many of the most notable modern educational buildings of that section.