KENDALL, TAYLOR & STEVENS, a leading firm in Boston, Mass., consisting of Henry H. Kendall (1855-1943), Bertram E. Taylor (1855-1909), and Edward F. Stevens (1860-1946). With their expertise in the field of hospital design, the firm was responsible for the design of dozens of medical buildings throughout the eastern United States between 1890 and 1940. Their influence reached into Canada, where they designed the General Hospital at WINDSOR, N.S., 1904 (Brickbuilder [Boston], xiii, March 1904, 53, illus.).
Kendall was born in New Braintree, Mass. on 4 March 1855 and studied architecture at the Worcester Polytechnic Inst. and at the Massachusetts Inst. Of Technology. He trained under William G. Preston in Boston in 1874-79 and then moved to Washington where he worked in the office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury for ten years. He returned to Boston after 1890 and worked in a succession of partnerships including Lord & Kendall, then Kendall & Stevens, and, after 1900, as Kendall, Taylor & Stevens. With the departure of Stevens in 1907 the firm was renamed Kendall, Taylor & Co., and after the death of Taylor in August 1909, Kendall continued to lead his firm for the next twenty years, assisted by his son Albert S. Kendall (1883-1941). Kendall died at Newton Centre, Mass. on 28 Feb. 1943 (obit. New York Times, 1 March 1943, 19; biog. National Cyclopedia of American Biography, xxxii, 1945, 239, with port.; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 339-40). Taylor died in Boston on 23 August. 1909 (obit. American Architect & Building News [New York], xcvi, 22 Sept. 1909, 3; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 590). Stevens obtained much of his knowledge and experience in hospital design from his early work with Kendall, and later formed his own firm of Stevens & Lee which became a leader in planning medical facilities in the United States and Canada (see entry under Edward F. Stevens).