John Howard Stevens

American

Following in his father's footsteps, John Howard Stevens demonstrated early on a penchant for drawing. After high school he joined his father's practice and while John Calvin Stevens exercised final say over all of the firm's work until his death in1940, John Howard Stevens produced a number of projects which were entirely of his design and testify to his talents as an architect. Perhaps as a result of the younger Stevens input, the firm's 20thcentury domestic designs show signs of an increasing hybridization of Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, and Shingle-style elements. This is seen in the Arts and Crafts interiors of the Charles M. Hays Cottage on Cushing's Island (1900-10) and even earlier in the Gould House on Vaughan Street in Portland (1904), as well as at the Norton House. - NRHP, 18 December 2003