John Hubbard Sturgis

Architect, born in Macao. His Boston partnership (1866–88) with Charles Brigham (1841–1925) was best known for residential designs and interiors, and they introduced the English Arts and Crafts tradition to Boston.

John Hubbard Sturgis (August 5, 1834 - February 14, 1888) was an American architect active in the Boston area.

Sturgis was born in Macao, China, the son of Russell Sturgis (1805-1887), a wealthy Boston merchant active in the China trade. In 1858, Sturgis married Frances Anne Codman of Boston, later to be aunt of noted interior designer Ogden Codman, Jr. Their first three years were spent in Surrey, where Sturgis tried an architectural practice, but ended with the death of their first child, Julia, in January 1861.

In autumn 1861 Sturgis and his wife returned to Boston, where Sturgis found work at Bryant and Gilman, then the largest architectural firm in Boston. Beginning with Sunnywaters in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, for his older brother Russell in 1862, he also designed a home in Cotuit, Massachusetts, for the Charles Russell Codmans, and a seaside house, Land’s End, on Ledge Road, Newport, Rhode Island, for Sam Ward, his father's business associate.

In 1866, Sturgis formed a partnership with Charles Brigham, also then at Bryant and Gilman, to found Sturgis and Brigham. Perhaps his most famous commissions were the first building for the Museum of Fine Arts (1870) in Copley Square, the ornamental detail for which was executed in imported English terra cotta, and the Church of the Advent on Beacon Hill, executed in the Early English Gothic Style between 1875 and 1888.

After his death, his nephew Richard Clipston Sturgis continued the architectural practice.