(b Boston, MA, 1832; d Boston, 1915). American architect. He belonged to a Boston family that played a crucial part in the development of the architectural profession in the USA. Graduating from Harvard University (1852), Cambridge, MA, he subsequently studied civil engineering at Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School and architecture in the Boston office of Edward Clarke Cabot (1818–1901). By 1859 he was in Richard Morris Hunt’s New York studio, where he was introduced to the ideas of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where Hunt had studied. In 1863 Ware formed a professional practice with Henry Van Brunt, a companion in Hunt’s studio, and the firm of Ware & Van Brunt became active in the Boston area. The partnership’s most notable work, the result of a limited competition held in 1865, is the Memorial Hall (1868–80), Cambridge, MA, a High Victorian Gothic Revival monument to Harvard men who died in the Civil War (...