Alfred Stone

Stone stu­died sur­vey­ing and drawing while at­ten­ding high school in Salem, Mas­sa­chu­setts. He worked in se­veral ar­chi­tec­tu­ral of­fices until 1859 when he en­t­e­red the firm of Al­pheus C. Morse of Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land. In 1864 Mr. Stone opened an of­fice of his own in that city. The firm at the time of his death was Stone, Car­pen­ter & Shel­don. Among the buil­dings de­si­gned by Mr. Stone and his as­so­ciates in Pro­vi­dence are the County Court House, Pu­blic Li­brary, Y.M.C.A. Buil­ding, Sla­ter Hall and other buil­dings at Brown Uni­ver­sity, Ex­ch­ange Bank, Pend­le­ton Mu­seum, and nu­merous pri­vate hou­ses. He was elec­ted an As­so­ciate of the Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects in 1870, a Fel­low in 1896, was its se­cretary from 1893 to 1898, and ser­ved on the Board of Di­rec­tors until his death. He was an ac­tive mem­ber of the Rhode Is­land Chap­ter, of which he was pre­si­dent at the time of his death.