Alexander Parris
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Alexander Parris was a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect whose work transitioned from Federal style architecture to the later Greek Reviva
The Executive Mansion at Richmond, Virginia, c. 1905
Quincy Market in 1830, Boston, Massachusetts
United First Parish Church, 1828, Quincy, Massachusetts -- exterior
-- and interior
Boston Navy Yard
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Boston Navy Yard is a former shipyard in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in Massachusetts, United States. One of the first shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy, it operated from 18
Alexander Parris
…Court Street. He belonged to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. In 1824, however, he began a twenty-year association working for the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown. He would end his career as chief engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. With the federal government as patron…
Boston Navy Yard in the 1930s
The Charlestown Ropewalk (depicted here in 1852) was built in 1837.
The main gate (since demolished), seen in 1915
Boston Navy Yard in 1942