Henry Forbes Bigelow was a Boston, Massachusetts architect in the firm Bigelow and Wadsworth. He became a partner in the firm in 1898.

Biography

Bigelow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....

, the son of Henry Nelson Bigelow (October 6, 1839-January 15, 1907) and Clarissa Nichols (Forbes) Bigelow. On October 14, 1896, he married Eliza Frothingham Davis, (January 17, 1871-June 20, 1907), and then remarried Susan Thayer (born October 1, 1885) on June 1, 1912 in Lancaster, Massachusetts

Lancaster, Massachusetts

Lancaster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Incorporated in 1653, Lancaster is the oldest town in Worcester County...

. His children by the first marriage were Henry Davis, born Boston, Massachusetts, November 4, 1897; Edward Livingston, born Boston, April 19, 1899; Chandler, born Milton, Massachusetts

Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of...

, July 21, 1900; and Nelson, born Milton, July 21, 1900. His child by the second marriage was Eugen Thayer, born Boston, March 19, 1913.

It appears that Bigelow attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

, as issue no. 2 of its Architectural Review included designs for a fountain by Henry Forbes Bigelow and W. Proctor, Jr., as well as a design for opera boxes by Henry F. Bigelow.

Works by Bigelow

• Gilbertsville, New York
  Gilbertsville, New York
  Gilbertsville is a village in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 375 at the 2000 census. The village is named after its founder, and early landowner Abijah Gilbert of Nuneaton, England, father of the eponymous United States Senator from Florida.The Village of Gilbertsville...
  
  's "The Gilbert Block" of 3, 6 and 9 Commercial Street within the Historic District. The graceful and period revival Tudor architecture
  Tudor architecture
  The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...
  
   was constructed between 1893-1895 to replace the earlier commercial block destroyed by fire. The building are extant today and still used for commercial purposes.

In 1887 fellow Boston architect William Ralph Emerson

William Ralph Emerson

-Biography:Emerson was born in Alton, Illinois, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and trained in the office of Jonathan Preston , an architect–builder in Boston, Massachusetts. He formed an architectural partnership with Preston , practiced alone for two years, then partnered with Carl Fehmer...

 created the Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...

residence Tianderah in the same very small Update New York village.