Loring's father, also named
Charles Greely Loring, was a
Union Army general during the
Civil War. He subsequently worked as an architect, first for
Cass Gilbert in
New York City, then at a firm he co-founded in Boston in 1912, Loring & Leland. Loring was also member of
St. Botolph Club, a
private social club in Boston. In 1915, Loring married Katharine A. Page, the daughter of
Walter Hines Page, then the
U.S ambassador to the United Kingdom. The wedding ceremony took place at
St James's Palace in London and was attended by
H. H. Asquith, then the
Prime Minister, and
Edward Grey, then the
British Ambassador to the U.S. Katharine died in 1956. During World War II, Loring headed a Massachusetts group responsible for camouflaging buildings considered possible aerial bombing targets. Shortly after the war, he was the architect for a new "temporary"
terminal building that opened at
Logan Airport in Boston in May 1946. In 1947, he was the architect for another building at the airport, reworking an existing
hangar for use as an international terminal. Loring was the architect for various public buildings, including the library in
Beverly, Massachusetts; a
fire station in
Reading, Massachusetts; and the building now known as
Old Somersworth High School in
Somersworth, New Hampshire, which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Loring remained professionally active as late as 1958, designing a
telephone exchange building in
Williamstown, Massachusetts. He died in 1966 in
Concord, Massachusetts, and was survived by three children. ==See also==