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Hotel Boylston, corner Tremont and Boylston St., Boston, 19th c. (Boston Public Library[1]
Cummings and Sears (est.1864) was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears.[2]
In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street,[3] moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square.[4][5]
Contents
Designed—Built by Cummings & Sears
- Capen Primary School-House, 6th and I St., Boston, 1871[6][7]
- New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston, 1872
- New Old South Church, Boston, 1873
- Congregational House, corner Beacon and Somerset St., Boston, 1873[8]
- Bedford Block, Boston, 1874
- Phillips Academy chapel, Andover, Massachusetts, 1876[9]
- Tyn-Y-Coed and Tyn-Y-Maes, Campobello Island, Canada, 1882-1883[10]
- Cyclorama Building, Boston, 1884
- Sears Building addition, Boston, 1891[11][12]
- Macullar, Parker & Co. building, no.400 Washington St., Boston[13]
- C.A. Cummings' dining room, Boston[14]
- Hotel Boylston, Boston[15]
- Montgomery Building, Boston[16]
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Capen School, Boston, 1871
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Congregational House, Boston, 1873
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Cummings' dining room, Boston, ca.1864-1876
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Macullar, Parker & Co., no.400 Washington St., Boston, ca.1870s
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Phillips Andover chapel, 1876
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Montgomery Building, Boston (photo ca.1890s)
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Sears Building addition (top 3 floors), Boston, 1890
See also
References
- ^ Flickr.com
- ^ Who's who in New England, Volume 3. 1915
- ^ Boston commercial directory for 1869
- ^ Boston Directory. 1873
- ^ Boston Almanac. 1879
- ^ City of Boston. Auditor of Accounts. Annual Report ... for 1870-1871
- ^ Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1871, Google books
- ^ Proceedings at the dedication of the Congregational House, Boston, February 12th, 1873: together with a brief history of the American Congregational Association. 1873, Google books
- ^ Claude Moore Fuess. An old New England school: a history of Phillips Academy Andover. Houghton Mifflin company, 1917
- ^ Kate Gannett Wells. Campobello: an historical sketch. 1893, Google books
- ^ Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. 1892
- ^ Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker. One Boston Place. Boston Globe. Nov 8, 1998
- ^ Moses Foster Sweetser. Macullar, Parker and Company, Boston, Mass: An historical and descriptive sketch. Boston: 1884, Google books
- ^ Charles Wyllys Elliott. The book of American interiors: prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1876
- ^ American Architect and Building News, June 13, 1885
- ^ Bacon's dictionary of Boston. 1886
External links
Categories:- Cummings and Sears buildings
- History of Boston, Massachusetts
- 19th century in Boston, Massachusetts
- Architecture in Massachusetts
- Architects from Massachusetts
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