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Francis Richmond Allen was the architect of the Thompson Memorial Chapel at Williams College (1905). This Gothic Revival chapel holds the President James Abram Garfield Memorial Window (1882), one of La Farge's most complex window designs. It was…

J. Williams Beal was a Boston architect who trained at MIT and then worked for McKim, Mead & White before opening his own firm. He designed the All Souls Unitarian Church in Roxbury, MA (1889). It is now the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal…

Elbridge Boyden was the architect of the Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1880). Boyden was a prominent New England architect, best known for his Mechanics Hall (1855) and the Cathedral of St. Paul (1874) in Worcester.

Charles Brigham was born in Watertown, MA to an old Watertown family. He enlisted in the Union army in September 1862. After hostilities ceased, he started practicing architecture. At the end of the decade he joined John Hubbard Sturgis to form the…

Bryant was the architect of the Gothic Revival First Church, Salem, MA (1835). Later he partnered with Arthur Gilman, and together they designed the Old City Hall in Boston (1862-65) in a Second Empire Baroque style and helped design the grid layout…

Damon was an architect in Haverhill, MA and one of the earliest graduates of the new architecture program at M.I.T. Damon was the original designer of the First Church, Congregational in Methuen, MA (1855/1882). The chancel of this church was…

Jeremiah O'Rourke (1833-1915) and Father George Deshon were the architects of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, NY (1874-89). Father Deshon was one of the founding members of the new Paulist order.

Alexander Esty was a noted church architect, based in Framingham, MA. He designed Grace Church, Newton, MA (1872), as well as many other churches in the area.

Robert Wilson Gibson was born in England, and studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He moved to America, and won a competition to design the All Saints Cathedral in Albany, New York (1888).

Born in Warwick, Rhode Island in 1777, Greene worked in Providence, where he designed more than fifty buildings for the capital city. Saint John's Cathedral (1810) and the Sullivan-Dorr House (1809-1810) are two of his most notable works in…

George Louis Heins was the partner of Christopher Grant La Farge (1862-1938) in the firm of Heins and La Farge. Their religious commissions include the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Providence, RI (1889; tower 1897). The chancel of the First…

Christopher Grant La Farge (1862-1938) was the eldest son of the artist John La Farge, and a partner in the firm of Heins and La Farge. Their religious commissions include the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Providence, RI (1889; tower 1897). The…

Emlen T. Littell was the first designer of the Church of the Incarnation, New York (1864-65). In 1882, fire destroyed most of it; the church was rebuilt in 1882 by David Jardine. In 1896, Heins and La Farge completed the spire. John La Farge painted…

Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Maginnis came to America at age 18. In Boston, he apprenticed with Edmund Wheelwright as a draftsman. Inspired by the Gothic Revival churches of Ralph Adams Cram, Maginnis became one the leading figures in…

John Ames Mitchell was educated at Harvard University, and studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a nephew of Oliver Ames Jr., and in 1875 designed Unity Church in North Easton, MA. This town is known…

Jeremiah O'Rourke and Father George Deshon (1823-1903) were the architects of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York, NY (1874-89).

Born in New York City into a wealthy and well-educated family, Renwick initially studied engineering at Columbia University. He graduated in 1836, already interested in architecture but with no formal training. His first major commission came in 1843…
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