Edwin L. Howland

Edwin L. Howland (1838–1876) was an American architect from Rhode Island who, despite his short career, designed several of Providence's most significant buildings of the 1860s and 1870s.

In 1864 he returned to Providence, associating himself with prominent ecclesiastical architect James Murphy.

[1] In his will he left his architectural library to the Rhode Island chapter of the American Institute of Architects,[4] of which he had been a founding member in January 1876.

[5] Howland was noted for his High Victorian Gothic designs, predominantly churches.

Of much original genius, his later works show a remarkable increase in power of design and refinement of taste, and some of them deserve to rank with the best of the present generation ... let us so build that when we too pass on, each one of us may leave as clean a record behind".