Ware, William R.

Ware, William R. (Robert)

(1832–1915) educator, architect; born in Cambridge, Mass. He founded and directed architectural programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865–81) and Columbia University (1881–1903) and practiced (1863–81) with Henry Van Brunt (1832–1903).

Ware, William R.

(1832–1915)Partner in the firm of Ware and Van Brundt. Both were pupils of Richard Morris Hunt in New York. Designed Memorial Hall, Harvard (1880), and the Stack addition to Gore Hall (1876), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. He was the first professor in the first U.S. school of architecture at MIT (1865), and later he set up the architecture school at Columbia University, New York. The firm designed Union Station (1875), Worcester, MA, abandoned after disuse in 1950, and restored in 2001.