Thomas Waldron Sumner
Thomas Waldron Sumner (1768–1849) was an architect and government representative in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century.[1][2] He designed East India Marine Hall and the Independent Congregational Church in Salem;[3][4] and the South Congregational Society church in Boston.[5] He was also involved with the Exchange Coffee House, Boston.[6]
In Boston he lived on Cambridge Street[7] and Chamber Street,[8] and later moved to Brookline.[9] He belonged to the Boston Associated Housewrights Society[10] and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association.[11] Sumner married Elizabeth Hubbard (1770–1839); children included Caroline Sumner (born 1796) and Thomas Hubbard Sumner. His parents were engineer James Sumner (1740–1814) and Alice Waldron (died 1773).[12][13] The artist John Christian Rauschner created portraits of Sumner and his wife.[14]
Images
Sumner's home in Brookline, Mass. (photo Historic New England)
Independent Congregational Church, Salem; built in 1825 (photo 1890s). Designed by Sumner.
East India Marine Hall, Salem; built 1825. Designed by Sumner.
Pierce Hall, Brookline, Mass., built 1825. Designed by Sumner (photo Boston Public Library)
Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.; built 1826. Designed by Sumner and Solomon Willard.[15]
South Congregational Church, Boston; built in 1828. Designed by Sumner.
References
- "Lived in Boston; was an architect; Representative 1805–11, '16, '17..." Appleton, William S. (1879), Record of the descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636, Boston: D. Clapp & Son, OL 19348457M, pp.21, 49-50
- Oliver Ayer Roberts (1897), History of the military company of the Massachusetts now called the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts.., Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, OL 13440629M
- Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr. Architecture in Salem: an illustrated guide. NH: University Press of New England, 2004
- "Independent Congregational Church, Barton Square, Salem, Mass". Boston Athenaeum catalog. 1828.
- Caleb H. Snow (1828), A history of Boston, Boston: A. Bowen, OCLC 734614, OL 6597289M
- Jane Kamensky. Exchange Artist: a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse. Viking, 2008.
- Boston Directory, 1796
- Boston Directory, 1805
- R.G.F. Candage. "The Gridley House, Brookline, and Jeremy Gridley." Publications of the Brookline Historical Society, 1903
- "Boston Associated Housewrights Society, instituted 1804. Thos. W. Sumner, president." cf. The Massachusetts manual, or, Political and historical register. Boston: Callender, 1814
- Alpheus Cary. Addresses delivered before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ... 6th triennial celebration. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1824
- Appleton. 1879
- Descendants may have included the architects Greene & Greene. cf. Kenneth Hafertepe, James F. O'Gorman. American architects and their books, 1840–1915, Books 1840–1915. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2007
- Ethel Stanwood Bolton (1915), Wax portraits and silhouettes, Boston: Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America, OL 7029721M
- Bryant F. Tolles Jr. Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860. NH: UPNE, 2011
Further reading
- Philip Chadwick Foster Smith (1974), East India Marine Hall: 1824–1974; with a foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill ; and a biographical sketch of its architect, Thomas Waldron Sumner by Christopher P. Monkhouse, [Salem, Mass.]: Peabody Museum of Salem, ISBN 0-87577-050-9, OCLC 1379930, OL 5255319M, 0875770509