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  • Collection: Architects

Rev. Wood was the architect of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, West Roxbury, MA (1893). Born in upstate New York, he was self-taught as an architect. He built several churches in Buffalo, Cleveland, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. In the late 1870s,…

Joseph C. Wells was an English-born architect who practiced between 1839-1860 in New York City. He was a founding member of the American Institute of Architects in 1857. He was the designer of the Newport Congregational Church (1855-57); this church…

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May 1832, Ware graduated from Harvard University in 1852. He studied at the Lawrence Scientific School before moving to New York to become a draftsman in the architectural offices of Richard Morris Hunt. Eight…

Walker was the architect of Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Boston (1892). The church burned in 1978, and was converted to the Church Court Condominiums by Graham Gund. Stained glass windows had previously…

Vaughan was born in England, and came to the United States in 1881, where he became a leading figure in the late Gothic revival. His ecclesiastical designs inspired Ralph Adams Cram and others. With George Frederick Bodley, he laid the plans for the…

Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, he practiced architecture in his hometown with William Ware for twenty years. Their buildings with stained glass by La Farge include Memorial Hall, Harvard (1871-78) and Christ Church Episcopal, Lincoln…

Renowned for church architecture, Upjohn was influential in the spread of Gothic Revival in America. Born in Shaftesbury, in Dorset, England, he initially trained as a cabinet-maker. In 1829 he came to the U.S. and settled in Boston where he started…

Sturgis had a twenty-year partnership with Charles Brigham as the firm Sturgis & Brigham. The firm concentrated on fine domestic architecture, most of the houses being around the Back Bay quarter of Boston and in Newport. They produced fine public…

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes was a prominent New York architect who studied at Harvard and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the architect of St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University (1904-07).

Born in New York City, Stern was educated at Columbia University and then Yale. He was a well-known author and teacher before starting his own practice. He believes in design as a process of cultural assimilation and that architecture is a…

Harris M. Stephenson was the architect of St. John's Episcopal Church, Jamaica Plain, MA, (1882).

Born in Priestley Plantation, Louisiana, Richardson was educated at Harvard and then studied architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts (1859–62). While in Europe he worked under Henri Labrouste and Jakob Ignaz Hittorf. He initiated the…

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…

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).

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…

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…
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