The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston

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Since its dedication in 1877, Trinity Church on Copley Square in Boston has been widely considered probably the most important and successful monuments of American architecture. It has long been hailed as the cornerstone of the career of The usa’s first celebrity architect, H. H. Richardson. But architecture isn’t solely the expression of individual genius. Buildings result from collaboration and compromise. They’re the concrete manifestations of competing needs, desires, and expectations expressed through clients, building committees, designers, bankers, engineers, builders, decorators, and others. The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston recognizes and celebrates this collaborative effort.

While critics regularly speak of the church as Richardson’s creation, this number of essays, written by leading scholars in the field, recognizes and assesses the individual contributions of the rector, Phillips Brooks; the chairman of the building committee, Robert Treat Paine; the builder, O. W. Norcross; and the decorator, John La Farge, in addition to Richardson. The book includes the first study of the furnishings of the interior by the architect’s place of work and features chapters on the stained glass designers Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Redmond, in addition to the architect Charles D. Maginnis, whose remodeling of the chancel in the 1930s brought the building to its full glory. These architectural collaborators are rarely given the recognition they receive here, despite the fact that the absence of any one of them would have produced a very different result. Such omissions would have significantly diminished this towering landmark of The usa’s cultural heritage.

In addition to the editor, contributors to the volume include Keith Bakker, David B. Chesebrough, Kathleen A. Curran, Erica Hirshler, Keith N. Morgan, Thomas M. Paine, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Milda B. Richardson, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., and Charles A. Vandersee.

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