Cummings and Sears explained

Cummings & Sears
Founders:Charles Amos Cummings, Willard T. Sears
City:Boston, Massachusetts
Founded:1864
Dissolved:1889

Cummings and Sears (est. 1864) was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears.[1]

History and legacy

In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street,[2] moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square.[3] [4]

Although most of their works are concentrated in New England, they also were commissioned to design buildings as far west as Utah as well as on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. Their best known work is Old South Church in Boston, completed in 1875.

Architects who worked in the office of Cummings & Sears include Charles L. Bevins of Rhode Island and Warren R. Briggs and Edward A. Cudworth of Connecticut.

Several of their buildings have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, and others contribute to listed historic districts.

Architectural works

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Notes and References

  1. Who's who in New England, Volume 3. 1915
  2. Boston commercial directory for 1869
  3. [Boston Directory]
  4. [Boston Almanac]
  5. Roger G. Reed, "The Lost Victorian Campus" in Academy Hill: The Andover Campus, 1778 to the Present (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000)
  6. Edwin M. Bacon, King's Dictionary of Boston (Cambridge: Moses King, 1883): 27.
  7. Auditor of Accounts' Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston and the County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, for the Financial Year 1870-71 (Boston: City of Boston, 1871)
  8. Robert D. Andrews, "Conditions of Architectural Practice Thirty Years and More Ago" in Architectural Review 5, no. 11 (November 1917): 237-238.
  9. "The Illustrations" in American Architect and Building News 2, no. 70 (April 28, 1877): 133.
  10. Keith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
  11. https://backbayhouses.org/230-clarendon-109-newbury/ 230 Clarendon (109 Newbury)
  12. https://backbayhouses.org/322-marlborough/ 322 Marlborough
  13. Proceedings at the dedication of the Congregational House, Boston, February 12th, 1873: together with a brief history of the American Congregational Association (1873)
  14. "The Illustrations" in American Architect and Building News 1 (February 26, 1876): 68.
  15. Moses Forster Sweetser, Macullar, Parker and Company, Boston, Mass: An Historical and Descriptive Sketch (Boston: 1884)
  16. Architectural Sketch-book 2, no. 1 (July 1874)
  17. "Yachting and Boating" in Forest and Stream 2, no. 8 (April 2 1874): 125.
  18. Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse: D. Mason & Company, 1892)
  19. https://backbayhouses.org/380-marlborough/ 380 Marlborough
  20. Kate Gannett Wells, Campobello: An Historical Sketch (1893)
  21. "GLO.1163." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 13, 2022.
  22. William Morgan, Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy of Dublin, New Hampshire (Boston: David R. Godine, 2011)
  23. https://buildingsofnewengland.com/2021/10/05/ullikana-1885/ Ullikana // 1885
  24. "GLO.1164." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 13, 2022.
  25. https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/94001551 Farmington Historic District NRHP Registration Form
  26. Seventh Annual Report of the New West Education Commission (Chicago: New West Education Commission, 1887)

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