Harry Britton Little

In 1930, not long after the threatened “Williamsburg on the Mill Dam” fiasco, the façade of the Anderson Market building was remodeled by Concord architect Harry Britton Little (1882-1944). Little had a national reputation, and his major work, with the firm of Frohman, Robb & Little, was the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He moved to Concord in 1914 and made it his permanent home.

Harry Little’s designs didn’t so much change the face of Concord as reinforce its appearance as a classic New England town. His work in Concord includes the Trinitarian Congregational Church (1924), the Concord Museum and the Fowler branch of the Library in West Concord (both 1930), and the Middlesex Savings Bank (1932). In 1934 he transformed the Concord Free Public Library from its outdated late-Victorian era gothic style into a graceful structure reminiscent of Monticello. He designed several private homes, including his own, Littleholme (1914), located on Simon Willard Road. In addition to the Anderson Market renovation, his commercial designs include Crosby’s filling station and the building that houses Helen’s Restaurant. He also designed the display windows at 23-25 Main Street, a renovation similar to that of Anderson’s Market.