Frederick Arthur “Tad” Stahl ’52
Frederick Arthur “Tad” Stahl ’52 died unexpectedly on July 26. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut, and came to college from Danbury high school. At Dartmouth Tad majored in architecture, was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. He was a Rufus Choate Scholar and received the Phi Beta Kappa scholarship prize. He also sang in the Glee Club. He went to the Harvard Graduate School of Design for a year and received an M.Arch. at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Dartmouth then awarded Tad a Reynolds Fellowship that took him to London for 18 months of research and teaching. He went on to build an extensive record as an architect responsible for the State Street Bank building at 225 Franklin St., the 1976 restoration of Quincy Market and the Park Street Church ministries building among many other significant commissions in Boston and beyond. He was honored by Dartmouth in Boston as a Builder of the Green in the 1990s. Tad also served as a board member of the Boston Architectural Center, one of America’s foremost schools of design. He never lost his love of music and he sang with the Apollo Club, America’s oldest continuous male chorus. He and his wife lived in Beacon Hill in Boston from 1964 until his passing. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Jane, and children Matthew, Nicholas’90 and Isabelle.
