Thomas Waldron Sumner
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Thomas Waldron Sumner (1768–1849) was an architect and government representative in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century. He designed East India Marine Hall and the Independent Congregational Church in Salem; and the South Congregational Society church in Boston. He was also involved with the Exchange Coffee House, Boston.
In Boston he lived on Cambridge Street and Chamber Street, and later moved to Brookline. He belonged to the Boston Associated Housewrights Society and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association. 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). The artist John Christian Rauschner created portraits of Sumner and his wife.
Images
Image:GardnerSumner house Brookline Massachusetts 19thc SPNEA.png|Sumner's home in Brookline, Mass. (photo Historic New England) Image:IndependentCongregationalChurch SalemMA ca1892 photo by FrankCousins.png|Independent Congregational Church, Salem; built in 1825 (photo 1890s). Designed by Sumner. Image:East India Marine Hall Salem Massachusetts edit.jpg|East India Marine Hall, Salem; built 1825. Designed by Sumner. Image:1875 PierceHall BrooklineMA BPL.png|Pierce Hall, Brookline, Mass., built 1825. Designed by Sumner (photo Boston Public Library) Image:DivinityHall HarvardUniversity ca1880s.png|Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.; built 1826. Designed by Sumner and Solomon Willard. Image:SouthCongregational Boston HomansSketches1851.jpg|South Congregational Church, Boston; built in 1828. Designed by Sumner.
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References
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- Oliver Ayer Roberts. (1897). "History of the military company of the Massachusetts now called the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts..". Alfred Mudge & Son.
- Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr. Architecture in Salem: an illustrated guide. NH: University Press of New England, 2004
- (1828). "Independent Congregational Church, Barton Square, Salem, Mass.". Boston Athenaeum catalog.
- Caleb H. Snow. (1828). "A history of Boston". A. Bowen.
- 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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d_oBAAAAYAAJ 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". Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
- Bryant F. Tolles Jr. Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860. NH: UPNE, 2011
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