This book examines the life and works of a major architect whose buildings today surpass him in recognition.
Biography: Ethan Anthony
Ethan Anthony was born October 14, 1950 in Iowa City, Iowa. He spent his youth in Stow, Massachusetts where he attended Stow public schools through eighth grade. He graduated from Xavier High School (Jesuit) in Concord, Massachusetts in 1968, studied at the Boston Architectural College 70-77, and received his architectural degree from the University of Oregon at Eugene in 1980. There, Mr. Anthony studied architecture with Professor Gary Moye, and studied painting under Frank Okada and Brian Kaslov.
Mr. Anthony then was employed in the firm of Payette Associates 1980-83 where he was a project architect in John L. Wilson's studio. He was lead designer under Mr. Wilson for hospitals and medical office buildings in Maine and Georgia and a hotel in Egypt.
Mr. Anthony founded Anthony Associates in 1983 where he practiced until 1990. During that time he designed a program of additions to the Springfield, Vermont Hospital and numerous residential and educational projects. In 1991 Anthony Associates merged with the firm of Hoyle, Doran and Berry (successor firm to Cram and Ferguson).
From 1991 to 1996 Mr. Anthony and his partner David Hulihan completed many projects for MCI Telecommunications Corporation throughout the Eastern half of the United States. Other clients included New England Telephone, Allmerica Insurance and National Life Insurance Company among others. In 1997 David Hulihan retired and the firm name was changed to HDB/Cram and Ferguson to reflect a return to the origins and traditions of the practice.
Today the firm concentrates on the New Traditional Planning, design of new religious and academic buildings and restoration of historically significant buildings. Recent work includes a new 1000 seat church for St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Farragut, Tennessee; a new 1200 seat church for St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Hampshire, Illinois; A new 1500 seat church for St. john Vianney Parish in Fishers, Indiana, Syon Abbey a new Benedictine Monastery near Roanoke, Virginia among many others. To see examples of current work visit the firm website at http://www.hdb.com.
Mr. Anthony and his wife Luz have traveled extensively in England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy over the last ten years. During that time they have documented the current state of historic churches architecture an archive he uses in his design work. Also after extensive work in the firms archive of drawings and photographs Mr. Anthony wrote the history of the architectural work of the firm and its founder Ralph Adams Cram published by WW Norton in April 2007.
Mr. Anthony is a frequent lecturer on current building in Gothic and Romanesque modes and current ecclesiastical and liturgical issues in architecture as well as the history of the firm and on the work of Ralph Adams Cram among other topics. He may be contacted at 617-424-6200 or by email at hdb@hdb.com.

