Edward B. Stratton
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Edward B. Stratton, often known as E.B. Stratton, was an American architect based in Boston. Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. He was born in Chelsea, Boston Chelsea, Massachusetts and went to Chelsea and Boston schools. He studied at least briefly at MIT and "at an atelier in Paris". Works include: Hotel Puritan Hotel Somerset Hotel Lenox Swampscott Country Club Police Annex, West Newton Casa De Josefina, 2 mi. SE of Lake Wales off U.S. 27 Lake Wales, FL (Stratton,Edward B.), NRHP-listed Edward B. Stratton House, 25 Kenmore St. Newton, MA (Stratton,Edward B.), NRHP-listed Vermont Building (1904), 6-12 Thacher St. Boston, MA, Chicago school/Early Commercial architecture. (Arthur H. Bowditch and Edward B. Stratton), NRHP-listed 90 Commonwealth Avenue (designed by Edward B. Stratton and George Nelson Jacobs), a nine-story 24-unit apartment building Gurley Building (1924), Stamford, Connecticut, also known as Valeur Building, an eight-story tall, narrow building. "Sullivanesque"; designed by Edward B. Stratton and built by Clinton Cruikshank. Included in the NRHP-listed Downtown Stamford Historic District, (see photo #4). He designed numerous buildings in the Longwood, Fisher Hill, and Chestnut Hill areas of Boston.