J. Williams Beal

John Williams Beal (19 May 1855 - 7 July 1919) was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

Portrait of J. Williams Beal

Biography

He was born in 19 May 1855 in Scituate, Massachusetts, to John Beal and Lucy Ann Beal.

He married Mary Washburn.

He trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then worked for McKim, Mead & White before opening his own business.[2] His sons, John and Horatio Beal founded J. Williams Beal, Sons, which designed the Masonic Temple (Quincy, Massachusetts) in 1926, and other area buildings.

He died on 7 July 1919 in Hanover, Massachusetts.

Designed by Beal

• Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church / All Souls' Church, Roxbury, Boston (1888)[3]
• Eliot Congregational Church, chapel addition, Roxbury, Boston (1889)[4]
• Harriswood Crescent rowhouses, Harold St., Roxbury, Mass. (1890)[5][6]
• Peabody-Williams House, Newton, Mass. (1891)
• Church of the Unity, Randolph, Mass. (ca.1892)[7]
• First Baptist Church, Lexington, Mass. (1892-1893)[8][9]
• Congregational Church, North Middleboro, Mass. (ca.1895)[10]
• 78 Powell Street, residence (1895) and stable/Carriage House (1895), Cottage Farm Historic District, Brookline, Mass. for Grace and Edwin Kramer.[11]
• 11 Wayne Street, neo-Colonial style residence of Judge Albert F. Hayden in Roxbury, Mass. (circa 1899) [12]
• Baptist Church, Brockton, Mass. (1908-1909) [13] [14]
• Charles A. Burdett house, Intervale, New Hampshire (ca. 1910) [15]
• Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds), Moultonborough, New Hampshire (1913-1914)[16]
• Mayflower Inn on Manomet Point, Plymouth, Mass. (1917)
• First National Bank Building, Northampton, Mass. (1928)
• 6 Briggs Street, Salem Mass. for Mrs. S. B. Simonds[17]

References

1. Boston almanac. 1884, 1887, 1891, 1894
2. Technology Review, Volume 21, 1919
3. The Unitarian, May 1892
4. Massachusetts Historical Commission, Building Inventory Form #12781 (2008)
5. "Roxbury Crossing Historical Trust".
6. Catalogue of the first annual exhibition of the Boston Architectural Club: held at Horticultural Hall, from Tuesday, May 13, to Saturday, May 31, 1890
7. The Unitarian, May 1892
8. Charles Hudson. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: History. Houghton Mifflin, 1913
9. "History - First Baptist Church".
10. Church building quarterly, April 1895
11. Brookline Preservation Commission, Cottage Farm Historic District Report, December 2015
12. "Walnut Avenue, Its Memorable Persons and Places, Its History" By Richard Heath
13. Christian Art, v.2, 1908
14. "First Baptist Church, Brockton, MA".
15. Good Housekeeping Magazine, v.50, pp.364-369, 1910
16. New Insights on the History of Castle in the Clouds
17. Architectural Plan