Henry Grant Morse, Jr. (1884 – May 28, 1934) was an American architect, best known for the two English manor houses that he relocated to Richmond, Virginia.
[1][2] He was born in Canton, Ohio to Mary K. and Henry G. Morse, Sr.[1] He studied at the Episcopal Academy near Philadelphia.
As an associate, he collaborated with Boston architect Herbert D. Hale on the Camden Free Public Library Main Building (1903–05) in Camden, New Jersey; the Norfolk Public Library (1903–06) in Norfolk, Virginia; and the United Engineering Societies Building (1904–07) in New York City.
[6][7] While working in Camden and Baltimore, the pair kept an office in the Drexel Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[8] On his own, he designed a laboratory building at Yale University, and Tudor-style houses in New Rochelle, New York for mural artist Frederick Dana Marsh and cartoonist Clare Briggs.He worked as a partner in the firm of Hawes & Morse for a number of years.