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.Who's who in New England, Volume 3. 1915

History and legacy In the 1860s they kept an office in the Studio Building on Tremont Street,Boston commercial directory for 1869 moving in the 1870s to Pemberton Square.Boston Directory. 1873Boston Almanac. 1879

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 Academy Hall, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1865, demolished)Roger G. Reed, "The Lost Victorian Campus" in Academy Hill: The Andover Campus, 1778 to the Present (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000) Brechin Hall, Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts (1866, demolished) Sears Building, Boston, Massachusetts (1868-69, demolished 1967)Edwin M. Bacon, King's Dictionary of Boston (Cambridge: Moses King, 1883): 27. Capen School (former), South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (1870-71)Auditor of Accounts' Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston and the County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, for the Financial Year 1870-71 (Boston: City of Boston, 1871) Mason & Hamlin Store, Boston, Massachusetts (1870, demolished)Robert D. Andrews, "Conditions of Architectural Practice Thirty Years and More Ago" in Architectural Review 5, no. 11 (November 1917): 237-238. Hotel Boylston, Boston, Massachusetts (1871, demolished 1897)"The Illustrations" in American Architect and Building News 2, no. 70 (April 28, 1877): 133. Carriage house at "Peacefield," Quincy, Massachusetts (1872)Keith N. Morgan, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009) House for Charles Amos Cummings, Boston, Massachusetts (1872)230 Clarendon (109 Newbury) House for Willard T. Sears, Boston, Massachusetts (1872)322 Marlborough New England Hospital for Women and Children, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts (1872, NRHP 1985) Congregational House, Boston, Massachusetts (1873, demolished)Proceedings at the dedication of the Congregational House, Boston, February 12th, 1873: together with a brief history of the American Congregational Association (1873) First Universalist Church, Lynn, Massachusetts (1873, demolished)"The Illustrations" in American Architect and Building News 1 (February 26, 1876): 68. Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1873-75, NRHP 1970) Bedford Block, Boston, Massachusetts (1874-75, NRHP 1979) Macullar, Parker & Company Store, Boston, Massachusetts (1874, demolished)Moses Forster Sweetser, Macullar, Parker and Company, Boston, Mass: An Historical and Descriptive Sketch (Boston: 1884) Montgomery Building, Boston, Massachusetts (1874, demolished)Architectural Sketch-book 2, no. 1 (July 1874) Yale University Boathouse, New Haven, Connecticut (1874-75, demolished 1910)"Yachting and Boating" in Forest and Stream 2, no. 8 (April 2 1874): 125. Stone Chapel, Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts (1875-76, demolished) Grand Opera House, New Bedford, Massachusetts (1881-82, demolished)Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse: D. Mason & Company, 1892) House for Charles James Sprague, Boston, Massachusetts (1881)380 Marlborough Tyn-Y-Coed and Tyn-Y-Maes Hotels, Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada (1882-83, demolished)Kate Gannett Wells, Campobello: An Historical Sketch (1893) Cyclorama Building, Boston, Massachusetts (1884, altered 1923, NRHP 1973) Union Chapel (former), Magnolia, Massachusetts (1884)"GLO.1163." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 13, 2022. House for James H. Frothingham, Dublin, New Hampshire (1885)William Morgan, Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy of Dublin, New Hampshire (Boston: David R. Godine, 2011) "Ullikana" for Alpheus Hardy, Bar Harbor, Maine (1885)Ullikana // 1885 Magnolia Library, Magnolia, Massachusetts (1887)"GLO.1164." mhc-macris.net. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n. d. Accessed January 13, 2022. Peoples Trust Company Building, Farmington, Maine (1887)Farmington Historic District NRHP Registration Form (1995) Proctor Academy, Provo, Utah (1887, demolished)Seventh Annual Report of the New West Education Commission (Chicago: New West Education Commission, 1887)

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