Harding and Seaver

He attended the public schools in Pittsfield and Phillips Academy in Andover before entering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

[2] Henry Morse Seaver was born March 8, 1873, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now part of Boston.

He entered the office of Boston architects Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, and also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a two-year architecture program, graduating in 1897.

After traveling in Europe, Seaver returned to Boston in 1899 and briefly established an architecture practice.

He was selected to design the new Theodore Parker Church in West Roxbury, the congregation of which his parents were members.

[a] Harding and Seaver "designed a great many public buildings in the Pittsfield-Berkshire County area, and did many other private commissions throughout New England and in New York State.