Cummings and Sears

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Cummings & Sears
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Founders Charles Amos Cummings, Willard T. Sears
Founded1864
Dissolved1889
Location Boston, Massachusetts
The Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, completed in 1875. Boston - Old South Church (48719081897).jpg
The Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, completed in 1875.

Cummings and Sears (est. 1864) was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears. [1]

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History and legacy

In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street, [2] moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square. [3] [4]

Although most of their works are concentrated in New England, they also were commissioned to design buildings as far west as Utah as well as on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. Their best known work is Old South Church in Boston, completed in 1875.

Architects who worked in the office of Cummings & Sears include Charles L. Bevins of Rhode Island and Warren R. Briggs and Edward A. Cudworth of Connecticut.

Several of their buildings have been listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places, and others contribute to listed historic districts.

Architectural works

See also

Notes

  1. A contributing property to the Dublin Village Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1983.
  2. A contributing property to the Farmington Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1995.

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