William Truman Aldrich was an architect and painter living in Boston who worked mostly in watercolor, but also did some oil paintings. He was a member of the Providence Art Club. He graduated in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901, after which he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. From 1924 he had his own office and designed mainly residential homes, but also museums and sacred buildings. Among William Aldrich’s later works were the Art Deco remodeling of 330 Boylston for Shreve, Crump & Low (1930), and the American Military Cemetery and Memorial in Brittany, France. His father, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915), was a Republican congressman and senator. A distant relative was the architect Chester Holmes Aldrich of Delano & Aldrich.
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