Though primarily a residential architect, he is also known for large museum buildings in Providence, Rhode Island, Worcester, Massachusetts and elsewhere.

[1] He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901, and then studied in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

[4] With Robert P. Bellows, Aldrich was responsible for a building for the School of Theology of Boston University (1916)[5] and a large house in Providence, Rhode Island for lawyer Rush Sturges (1922), among other projects.

[6] After dissolving his partnership, Aldrich designed a number of prominent museum, academic and government buildings.

These include the Eliza G. Radeke Building of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1926),[7] the front building of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts (1931–33),[8] the United States Post Office in Gloucester, Massachusetts (1932–35, with William Chester Chase)[9] and Munger Hall (1933)[10] and the original part of the Keohane Sports Center (1938)[11] on the campus of Wellesley College.