George Albert Clough (May 27, 1843 – December 30, 1910) was an architect working in Boston in the late 19th-century. He designed the Suffolk County Courthouse in Pemberton Square, and numerous other buildings in the city and around New England. Clough served as the first City Architect of Boston from 1876 to 1883. Life and career George Albert Clough was born May 27, 1843, in Blue Hill, Maine. He attended the Blue Hill Academy and worked as a draftsman for his father, the shipbuilder Asa Clough. He moved to Boston in 1863, entering the firm of Snell & Gregerson as a student. He remained with Snell until 1869, when he established his own practice. In 1876 he was elected City Architect of Boston, the first person to hold the office. He continued in that position until 1883, when he was replaced by Charles J. Bateman. He was awarded his largest commission, the Suffolk County Courthouse, in competition two years later in 1885. This building was completed in 1893, largely to Clough's design but with modifications he disapproved of. He was a private practitioner until 1901, when he formed a partnership with Herbert L. Wardner. Clough & Wardner operated until Clough's death in 1910. Wardner continued to practice on his own in Boston until 1915, when he moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, moving again to Akron, Ohio, in 1919, where he died in 1939. Personal life In 1876 Clough married Amelia M. Hinckley of Thetford, Vermont, the sister of Lyman G. Hinckley. They had three children. Clough died December 30, 1910, at home in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 67. Legacy Historian Walter Muir Whitehill described him as "a competent but not very inspired practitioner." His finer works, typically in Richardsonian Romanesque style, disagree. A number of Clough's projects have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Architectural works Gaston Grammar School, City Point, South Boston, 1873 Fields Corner Municipal Building, Dorchester, Boston, 1874 Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse, E end of Framingham Reservoir No. 1, off Winter St. N of Long Ave. Framingham, Massachusetts, 1876 Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse, SE end of Framingham Reservoir No. 3, off MA 9/30 Framingham, Massachusetts, 1876 English High and Latin School, Montgomery St., Boston, 1877 Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse, Between Framingham Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2, W of jct. of Winter