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was, of course, wholly due to Mr. Ware. For long it remained archi- 

 tecturally one of the most successful of American railroad stations 

 and bore comparison with any of similar size that came into being 

 much later. It has only recently been removed to give way to the 

 present larger and more ambitious, but certainly, as a work of art, 

 not more successful station. The dignified tower of Mr. Ware's 

 Worcester station still stands. In 1860 Mr. Philbrick went to Europe 

 and the brief partnership came to an end. Shortly thereafter Mr. 

 Ware formed a partnership with his life-long friend Mr. Henry Van 

 Brunt, a connection which lasted until 1881 when Mr. Ware went to 

 New York. It is impossible to separate the part of the two friends in 

 the many buildings which the firm carried out. Mr. Van Brunt's 

 share in these designs tended to increase as Mr. Ware found his time 

 more and more engrossed by educational work. Among the more 

 important buildings which resulted from this partnership, Memorial 

 Hall and Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, the First Church in Boston, 

 and St. John's Church in Cambridge may be singled out. In 1865 

 Mr. Ware was invited to take charge of the Department of Architecture 

 of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 

 to formulate a course of professional study. In preparation for this 

 unprecedented undertaking, Mr. Ware stipulated that he should first 

 spend a year in Europe, examining schools of architecture and pre- 

 paring himself for his new work. His association with Mr. Hunt 

 naturally led him to think of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, to 

 which x\merican students of architecture, in part through Mr. Hunt's 

 influence, were already finding their way. But Mr. Ware found in 

 another more modest Paris institution, the Ecole Centrale d'Archi- 

 tecture, then conducted by its founder Mr. Trelat, a model which 

 seemed to offer, especially in its association of liberal studies with 

 professional training, suggestions better adapted to the needs of 

 American students and to the conditions which had to be met at the 

 Institute of Technology. But the advantages of the Ecole des Beaux 

 iVrts were not overlooked and in 1871 Professor Ware secured the 

 appointment of one of its distinguished graduates, Mr. Eugene Letang, 

 to take charge of the work in Design. Mr. Letang proved a most 

 sympathetic associate and continued to direct the work in architectural 

 design at the Institute until his death in 1892. Meanwhile, Professor 

 Ware had been called, in 1881, under most favorable conditions, to 

 New York, to found a school of architecture at Columbia University, 

 where he remained until 1903. He thus directly founded two of the 

 prominent schools of architecture of the country, and as others came 



