Calvin Ryder

The White House, the only one to remain entirely unaltered, has since become a famous coastal Maine icon, particularly for its glass cupola.

[2] In Boston, Ryder went into partnership with William Hovey, later with Enoch Fuller, and still later with Edward D. Harris.

His major idiom in the 1850s-60s became the Mansard style, and he pioneered its use in a number of wooden mansions around Boston and Cambridge.

A design for he sent back to Bangor, Maine for the William Blake House (1858), built by his sister and brother-in-law, established a look which came to define that city’s domestic architecture in the 1860s.

[3] Ryder died unexpectedly while visiting his sister and brother-in-law in Bangor (in their house of his design) and was buried in nearby Winterport, Maine.