Joseph Ladd Neal

He worked for Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in Boston and James Renwick Jr. In New York City, before settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about 1892. In 1893 he established a partnership with S. Alfred Hopkins, that lasted a year. A partnership with George M. Rowland lasted from 1902 to 1906. Four of his works – Lithgow Public Library, Merrill Memorial Library, College Hill Station, Small Point Club – are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Lithgow Library and Reading Room, Augusta, Maine, 1894–96, with S. Alfred Hopkins. Neal & Hopkins won the commission in a national design competition with 65 submissions. • First Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, c. 1895. • Small Point Club, Small Point, Maine, 1895-97. • Morrill Memorial Library, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1897-98. A near-replica of Neal's Lithgow Library. • Alterations to Beaver County Courthouse, Beaver, Pennsylvania, 1901. • James Lyall Stuart house, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, c. 1905, with George M. Rowland. • College Hill Station (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad), Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, 1910, John Abiel Atwood, engineer. • Illustration — Lithgow Public Library, Augusta, Maine (1894–96). • Illustration — Merrill Memorial Library, Norwood, Massachusetts (1897–98). • Illustration — College Hill Station, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (1910).