Leicester Bodine Holland

Leicester Bodine Holland (23 May 1882 – 7 February 1952)[1] was an American architect, art historian and archaeologist and holder of the Carnegie Chair at the Library of Congress.

His father was the Dean of the Jefferson Medical College; and when he graduated from William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1898 Leicester Holland originally intended to also become a doctor.

[3][4] He trained in architecture with Wilson Eyre in Philadelphia and with Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson of Boston.

From 1945 to 1946 he was a lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College and from 1946 to 1947 an architect with the Corinth excavations of the American School in Athens.

The Leicester B. Holland Prize is awarded annually by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in recognition of the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic building, site, or structure.