Charles A. Alexander
Charles Albert Alexander (February 1827 – May 23, 1888) was an American architect active in the second half of the 19th century. He designed notable buildings in Boston, Portland (Maine), New York City and Chicago. Life and career Alexander was born in February 1827, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to Henry Foster Alexander and Mary Jackson. In 1849, Alexander was listed as a partner of William Washburn, a Boston architect. One of his works was the renovation of the American House hotel in 1851, a site now occupied by the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in the city's Hanover Street. After several years in Portland, Maine, after his divorce Alexander moved to New York City in 1863, but regularly visited Portland. It was during his period in New York that Alexander was elected to the American Institute of Architects. He was living near Madison Square, on East 25th Street. In 1870, he moved to Chicago, shortly before its great fire. Alexander married Mary Catherine Granger on September 2, 1849, in New Haven, Connecticut. Two years later, the couple temporarily relocated to Portland, Maine, with a view to moving there permanently. Their son, Philip, was born in Boston in November 1851, shortly after