868 WILLIAM ROBERT WARE. 



it seemed unnecessary or inadvisable. His services to his profession 

 in this field brought what was perhaps the most distinguished pubHc 

 recognition which came to him: his appointment in 1906 to represent 

 America on the international jury of architects which was called upon 

 to decide the world-competition for the Peace Palace at the Hague. 



William Robert Ware was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 

 May 27th, 1832. He was the son of the Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. 

 Ten years later the family moved to Framingham and in April, 1844, 

 to Milton, to the home where on June 9th, 1915, he passed peacefully 

 away. Here he attended the Milton Academy of which in later life 

 he was one of the Trustees; but his health not being vigorous his 

 mother sent him to England to the care of her cousin. He went alone 

 and was gone six months. The journal which he then kept shows, 

 even in the lad of fifteen, his taste and his independence of mind. It 

 seems probable that this journey had its influence in turning him 

 ultimately toward architecture, a career which gave scope both to the 

 scientific bent of his mind and to his interest in the fine arts. On his 

 return he went to the Phillips Exeter Academy and from there entered 

 Harvard College as a member of the Class of 1852, and was elected to 

 the Phi Beta Kappa. On graduation he taught school for two years 

 in New York to supi^ort himself, and then entered the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, graduating in engineering in 1856. Horace Porter, 

 Prof. T. H. Safford, Prof. F. W. Putnam, x\lexander Agassiz and Dr. 

 William Watson, Secretary of the American Academj- of Arts and 

 Sciences, were among the students in the Lawrence Scientific School 

 at this time. After that he studied his profession in the office of Mr. 

 Richard M. Hunt of New York, one of the first American graduates 

 of the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. Mr. Hunt made of his olfice a 

 sort of Atelier, and here young Ware found himself in the company of 

 Henry Van Brunt, who was later to be his partner, of George B. Post 

 and others who later attained prominence as architects. Mr. Hunt's 

 office was certainly the first American 'atelier' and might almost be 

 called the first American school of architecture. Later Mr. Ware 

 entered in Boston the office of Mr. Edward C. Cabot whose scholarly 

 and conscientious work, such as the Boston Athenaeum and the 

 Boston Theatre, was distinctly the best then being done. When Mr. 

 Ware was twenty-six or twenty -seven years of age he formed a partner- 

 ship with Mr. Edward L. Philbrick and began his independent pro- 

 fessional career. Together they carried out the railroad station at 

 Worcester, architecturally one of the most important projects of the 

 kind that had so far been built in this country. Its architectural form 



