Stephen L. Enright

1940 - 2018

Stephen L. Enright, 78, of Acton, passed on November 11, 2018, peacefully at home. Steve was born on April 16, 1940 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to John R. Enright and Anne (Mackie) Enright. The family soon moved to Winchester, MA, where Steve and his two brothers and two sisters grew up. He made lifelong friendships and ran track at Winchester High School. Inspired by his beloved uncle, Paul Mackie, he applied to the University of Notre Dames School of Architecture and graduated in 1963. Steve cherished the friendships and humor shared with his colleagues in his first firms in Boston, Cambridge and Madison, Wisconsin. In 1968, he met Carole Richardot in Boston and they married the next year. Amy was born a year later while they worked and lived in Cambridge. Next, Steve took a job at a British architecture firm, Palmer & Turner, in Hong Kong where the couple moved in 1972. His crowning achievement was working on the design for the world class Oriental Hotel in Bangkok. Andy and Ian were both born overseas before the family of five moved back the States in 1975. Wanting to start his own practice, Steve and the family moved to Middlebury, VT where he ran his own one-man architectural firm from 1975-1978. After three years in Acton, MA, Steve and Carole designed and built a new house in Concord, MA where the family spent the next thirty years. Steve spent many enjoyable years in Harvard Square working for The Architects Collaborative (TAC) and Tsoi / Kobis. He retired in 2009. He will be remembered for his lively sense of humor and story telling, as an artist, inventive jazz pianist, enthusiastic gardener and avid Boston sports fan. Beginning with an adventure down the upper Mystic River and on into Boston Harbor as a 12 year old in an 8 pram he built with brother John, Steve graduated to a lifetime of sailing and boating on The Charles, Pleasant Bay and Hong Kong harbor. Steve is cherished and dearly missed by his wife, Carole, and his children: Amy Enright of Bellingham, MA; Andrew Enright of Natick, MA; and Ian Enright of Studio City, CA as well as his grandchildren Sam and Annabel Enright of Natick. He is survived by his sisters Marie McPartlin and Christine Snyder, his younger brother Logan Enright, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Family and friends are invited to a memorial celebration of life at St. Annes in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 147 Concord Road, Lincoln, MA on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 10:00 am. A private burial will be held prior to the service at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. In lieu of flowers, you are welcome to contribute to The Saint Francis House Homeless Shelter at 39 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116 (www.stfrancishouse.org). Arrangements are under the care of Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord. To share a remembrance or to send a condolence in Steves online guestbook, please visit www.DeeFuneralHome.com.