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

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  Capen School, Boston, 1871
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  Congregational House, Boston, 1873
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  Cummings' dining room, Boston, c. 1864-1876
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  Macullar, Parker & Co., no.400 Washington St., Boston, c. 1870s
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  Phillips Andover chapel, 1876
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  Montgomery Building, Boston (photo c. 1890s)
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  Sears Building addition (top three floors), Boston, 1890

See also

• Albert Levy (photographer)

References

1. Who's who in New England, Volume 3. 1915
2. Boston commercial directory for 1869
3. Boston Directory. 1873
4. Boston Almanac. 1879
5. City of Boston. Auditor of Accounts. Annual Report ... for 1870-1871
6. Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1871, Google books
7. 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
8. Claude Moore Fuess. An old New England school: a history of Phillips Academy Andover. Houghton Mifflin company, 1917
9. Kate Gannett Wells. Campobello: an historical sketch. 1893, Google books
10. Boston of to-day: a glance at its history and characteristics. 1892
11. Robert Campbell and Peter Vanderwarker. One Boston Place. Boston Globe. Nov 8, 1998
12. Moses Foster Sweetser. Macullar, Parker and Company, Boston, Mass: An historical and descriptive sketch. Boston: 1884, Google books
13. Charles Wyllys Elliott. The book of American interiors: prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1876
14. American Architect and Building News, June 13, 1885
15. Bacon's dictionary of Boston. 1886

External links

• Flickr.com
• Artic.edu