These included everyone from railway magnate Collis Huntington to oil mogul Edward Doheny to the embodiment of power, Los Angeles Times publisher HarrisonGrayOtis.
In the decade from 1795 to 1806 for Boston alone he designed the Massachusetts State House and three houses for HarrisonGrayOtis (each more original than its predecessor), and worked on a theater, prison, hospital and wharves.
But a previous publisher, HarrisonGrayOtis, so angered labor leaders with his opposition to unions that John McNamara of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers dispatched his brother James to blow up the Times building in 1910.