(b New Bedford, MA, 1845; d Marblehead, MA, 23 Sept 1917). American architect and writer. He attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1866. He joined the office of Bryant & Gilman, moving to Ware & Van Brunt, where he met his future partner, John Goddard Stearns (1843-1917), an engineer and graduate of Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School. In 1867 he entered the Atelier Daumet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Charles McKim and Francis Chandler, but the experience served to confirm his affection for English styles and the Picturesque Movement. On his return to Boston in 1870, Peabody formed a partnership with Stearns that lasted until 1917. The practice attracted a creative team, many of them graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where Chandler became dean), who spread Peabody's influence nationwide. Peabody controlled the design process by producing the original sketches, delegating executive design responsibility to the younger architects; Stearns supervised the construction.
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