Kilham & Hopkins

The firm has been recognized for its contributions to early 20th century reform housing, including its work at the Atlantic Heights Development in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at the Woodbourne Historic District in the Forest Hills section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and for the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company in the Salem Point Neighborhood of Salem, Massachusetts.

[6] Kilham served as an instructor in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for several years,[4][5] and also developed a reputation for his work as a painter.

[16] By 1918, the firm "had achieved a reputation as advocates of housing reform and progressive town planning."

[3]: 50–51  The firm's contributions to early 20th century reform housing were the subject of a 1987 work published by the University of Chicago Press.

[17] In 1946, firm founder Walter Kilham published a book on the history of architecture in Boston.