William Robert Ware

Soon afterward Ware formed a partnership with the civil engineer Edward S. Philbrick, Philbrick and Ware, and they designed the Swedenborgian High Street Church in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1864, Ware partnered with fellow Harvard graduate Henry Van Brunt to form Ware & Van Brunt. Their Boston-area designs include Harvard's Memorial and Weld Halls, the Episcopal Divinity School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the fountain at the Providence Athenaeum in Providence, Rhode Island, the Walter Hunnewell house (1875) at the Hunnewell estate in Wellesley (then West Needham), and the Ether Monument at the Boston Public Garden.[2] In 1865, Ware became the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee apprenticed under Ware and Van Brunt after graduating MIT in 1869.[3] In 1881, Ware and Van Brunt amicably dissolved their partnership, and Ware moved to New York City to found the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Architecture Department in the Columbia School of Mines.[4][5] He retired in 1903 in poor health. Ware also dabbled briefly in voting systems. He conducted a demonstration STV election of four favorite authors at Harvard University in 1871.[6] At that time, he used the idea of the single transferable vote to devise what is now called, in the U.S, ranked choice voting or instant-runoff voting, later used in several English speaking countries.[8] • Illustration — Memorial Hall (1870), Harvard University • Illustration — Lawrence and Reed Halls, Episcopal Divinity School • Illustration — Weld Hall (1870), Harvard University

William Robert Ware studied at Harvard University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard College. Training under Richard Morris Hunt is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture.

• Born — May 27, 1832 • Birthplace — Cambridge, Massachusetts, US • Died — June 9, 1915 • Education — Harvard College Lawrence Scientific School • Practice — Philbrick and Ware Ware & Van Brunt • Significant Buildings — Memorial and Weld Halls, Harvard Ether Monument

William Robert Ware is recorded as having studied at Harvard University, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard College.