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Leicester
Bodine Holland (23 May 1882 – February 7, 1952) was an American architect, art
historian and archaeologist and holder of the Carnegie Chair at the Library of
Congress. One could establish the gayness of Leicester Holland, chairman in
the 1930s of the American Institute of Architects committee on the
Preservation of Historic Buildings, without having to infer it from a
subkective cluster of "gaydar" indications, including a photo that shows him
wearing a ring on only the little finger of his left hand.
Holland was born in Louisville,
Kentucky, the son of Dr. James W. Holland and Mary Boggs Rupert. His father was the Dean of the Jefferson
Medical College; and when he graduated from William
Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1898 Leicester Holland originally
intended to also become a doctor. However, instead he went into architecture and
after he received a Bachelor
of Science degree from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1902 he gained a further Bachelor
of Science degree in Architecture in 1904. Later he received his M.A. in
1917 and his Ph.D in 1919,[1] all
from the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3]
He trained in architecture with Wilson
Eyre in Philadelphia and
with Cram, Goodhue &
Ferguson of Boston. By
1907 he had set up the partnership of Howell & Holland with Carl Howell, a
partnership which lasted until 1912. From then on Holland became interested in
archaeology, and eventually he left architecture to follow this interest. From
1913 to 1946 he was a member of the Faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania serving as Associate Professor of Architecture (1922–23)
and later served as Chief of the Division of Fine Arts and holder of the
Carnegie Chair at the Library
of Congress. In 1923 he married the academic and archaeologist Louise
Holland (1893–1990) and their daughter Barbara Adams Holland was born in
1925. A second daughter, Marian Rupert Holland, was born in 1927[4] while
their son Lawrence Rozier Holland was born in 1930.[5] His
sister-in-law was the United
States Poet Laureate Léonie
Adams. From 1945 to 1946 he was a lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Bryn
Mawr College and from 1946 to 1947 an architect with the Corinth
excavations of the American
School in Athens.[2]
Holland had joined the American
Institute of Architecture (AIA) in 1913 and in 1920 became a Fellow of the
Institute. He was also a member of the Philadelphia
Sketch Club and of the Archaeological
Institute of America.[2] He
was well known during his lifetime for his book The Garden Bluebook: A Manual
of the Perennial Garden (first published in 1915, with later editions), which
"advised amateur gardeners and those working in the newly professionalized
field of landscape architecture to think of their herbaceous borders as a
series of pictures changing month by month."[6] With
Harry Parker he wrote Ready-Written Specifications: A Compendium of Clauses
for Direct Use in Architectural Specifications (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New
York, 1926). The Leicester B. Holland Prize is awarded annually by the Historic
American Buildings Survey (HABS) in recognition of the best single-sheet
measured drawing of an historic building, site, or structure.[7]
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