Cummings and Sears
Cummings and Sears (est. 1864) was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears.[1] In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street,[2] moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square.[3][4]
Hotel Boylston, corner Tremont and Boylston St., Boston, 19th century
Designed and built by Cummings and Sears
- Capen Primary School-House, 6th and I St., Boston, 1871[5][6]
- New England Hospital for Women and Children, Boston, 1872
- New Old South Church, Boston, 1873
- Congregational House, corner Beacon and Somerset St., Boston, 1873[7]
- Bedford Block, Boston, 1874
- Phillips Academy chapel, Andover, Massachusetts, 1876[8]
- Tyn-Y-Coed and Tyn-Y-Maes, Campobello Island, Canada, 1882-1883[9]
- Cyclorama Building, Boston, 1884
- Sears Building addition, Boston, 1891[10][11]
- Macullar, Parker & Co. building, no.400 Washington St., Boston[12]
- C.A. Cummings' dining room, Boston[13]
- Hotel Boylston, Boston[14]
- Montgomery Building, Boston[15]
Images
Capen School, Boston, 1871
Congregational House, Boston, 1873
Cummings' dining room, Boston, c. 1864-1876
Macullar, Parker & Co., no.400 Washington St., Boston, c. 1870s
Phillips Andover chapel, 1876
Montgomery Building, Boston (photo c. 1890s)
Sears Building addition (top three floors), Boston, 1890
See also
References
- 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
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