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Charles Rutan. Architect. Brookline MA. Richardsonian Shingle Style. Red house.
ONE OF A PAIR OF DOUBLE HOUSES
Elm Street, Brookline MA, ca. 1886
Charles Hercules Rutan
photograph by Mark Wright

Designed and owned by Rutan, who was moonlighting out of H H Richardson's office — certainly with HHR’s encouragement — to garner investment income. Henry-Russell Hitchcock's dismissive opinion of Rutan was unjust. This really isn't at all bad for an urban semi-D.