A. Clough, was an American architect, carpenter, and contractor, who was active in New England, especially prominent in Western Massachusetts, and whose work shaped much of the architectural landscape of Holyoke during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

With the emergence of the Civil War, he left the classroom and entered the service of Company B of the 39th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, seeing battle at the Siege of Petersburg.

[6]: 13  Withstanding a fire in 1902,[7] and several smaller, the building stood at the corner of High and Dwight Street across from City Hall for more than 60 years, until it was razed in 1950 to make way for the more modern two-story storefront which stands there today.

[11] In 2005 it was renovated by the New England Farm Workers' Council and rechristened The Latino Professional Building, receiving an award from the Massachusetts Historical Commission for its attention to original detail.

The former is also known as the Russell-Osborne building as Clough leased it to the homonymous hardware store, while the latter was built for its namesake's stove and furnace business.

Richardsonian Romanesque influence can be seen in Clough's commercial work, through the use of quarry-faced ashlar in broad arches on the second-stories of both buildings.

Boston architectural historian Roger G. Reed also notes in his brief piece on Clough's work, that the use in arched windows on the second stories of such buildings may have been an aesthetic to indicate those floors were part of the storefront businesses at the time, however both buildings have seen their storefronts heavily modified and no original floor plans have been found to confirm this.

Constructed in 1902 during the administration of Mayor Chapin, one of his previous clients, Clough donated his services to the city entirely pro bono, as his daughters had been patrons.

[6]: 57 [18] While many of their works outside of Holyoke remain poorly documented today, in Massachusetts alone, Clough & Reid were known to have designed structures in Boston, Springfield, Westfield, Chicopee, Northampton, Easthampton, Huntington, Worthington, and Monroe.