(b Newport, RI, 10 June 1852; d Staten Island, NY, 1924). American architect. He was born into an established Massachusetts family. He was in practice in Boston by the late 1870s, and by 1885 he had moved to New York. He specialized in residential buildings, although he also designed other building types, for example the Holyoke Opera House (1878–9), MA. His early work chiefly comprised Queen Anne Revival and Shingle-style houses on the East Coast, such as the Lyman Josephs House (1882–3) in Middletown, RI, but he soon graduated from timber resort and suburban houses to urban row (terraced) houses, such as the King Model Houses (1891), Harlem, New York. These were sponsored by a builder, David H. King jr, who commissioned four architects to build them: Luce, Bruce Price, James Brown Lord (1859–1902) and McKim, Mead & White. Having forged a link with King, Luce went on to design for him the Renaissance Hotel (1891; destr.) on Fifth Avenue. He later built other hotels in New York, such as the Hotel Somerset (1901) on W. 47th Street, and on the East Coast, as well as apartment blocks around Fort Washington Avenue in upper Manhattan. Luce also designed exhibition buildings, including the Massachusetts pavilion for the Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia (1876) and the New York State pavilion for the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition in Portland, OR (1905).