SHATTUCK, George Cutler (1863-1923), a prominent architect active in Boston, Mass. as a member of the firm of Coolidge & Shattuck. Architects from 1914 to 1923. Shattuck was born in Andover, Mass. on 22 November 1863 and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology in Cambridge in 1884-88; one of his classmates there was the young Canadian student Edward Maxwell of Montreal, with whom he developed a friendship. In 1899 Maxwell called upon his friend to move from Boston and join his office in Montreal to assist him with the extensive workload of new commissions ( see list of works by Maxwell & Shattuck in the entry under Edward Maxwell). Shattuck remained there until 1901, and when he left to return to Boston, he was replaced by William S. Maxwell, brother of Edward, in the new firm of E. & W.S. Maxwell in Montreal.
When Shattuck returned to Boston, he rejoined the firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge as a senior draftsman and remained with them until 1914. After the death of both Shepley in 1903, and Rutan in 1914, Charles Coolidge invited Shattuck to form a new partnership, and they collaborated for the next decade until the death of Shattuck in Exeter, New Hampshire on 3 September 1923 (obituary Boston Daily Globe, 5 Sept. 1923, 4; obit. A.I.A. Journal, xi, 1923, 616; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 547)