Alonzo J. Harriman

After graduation he returned to Bath, but a downturn in shipbuilding after World War I caused him to take a job in the office of his uncle, Lewiston architect Harry S. Coombs, instead.

In 1925 Harriman chose to go back to school, graduating from Harvard University in 1928 with a MA, having also worked part-time for Cram & Ferguson in Boston.

[1] Unlike most architectural firms, Harriman's office underwent substantial growth during World War II.

These began small, with the John E.L. Huse Memorial School in Bath, a wartime welfare project, in 1941 and grew to include the shipyards of the New England Shipbuilding Corporation in South Portland in 1943 and the design of the entire Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County in 1947.

After many years in Lewiston, in 1939 Harriman designed and had built a Moderne house at 88 Shepley Street in Auburn, where he lived until his death.

In 1961 he was elected a Fellow, the AIA's highest membership honor, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Bates College.

The former John E.L. Huse Memorial School in Bath , designed by Harriman and completed in 1942.
The Chase Hall Memorial Commons of Bates College , completed in 1950.
The operations building of the former Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County , completed in 1953.
Schaeffer Theatre of Bates College , completed in 1960.
The Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building and Courthouse in Bangor , completed posthumously in 1968.