Famous architects from New England:
Frank Lloyd Wright--by virtue of having spent part of his childhood in Weymouth.
H.H. Richardson
Olmsted
Ralph Cram
Maya Lin--by virtue of having gone to Yale
Gropius
etc...
The sales pitch of this list is that some important designers have passed through New England. Their most important work was often realized elsewhere. This region is not the most fertile ground for the avante garde or the very large. A provincialism stalks the streets, and people learn to temper their expectations. No towers to the sky get past local zoning boards.
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