Charles Amos Cummings was a nineteenth-century American architect and architectural historian who worked primarily in the Venetian Gothic style. Cummings followed the precepts of British cultural theo
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Lantern and exterior chancel wall at Old South Church in Boston.
The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Cummings and Sears was an architecture firm in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears.
Charles Amos Cummings
…the office of architect Gridley Bryant, where he met Willard T. Sears. In 1861 the two left Bryant's office to form their own architectural studio, Cummings and Sears. Cummings traveled extensively in Europe, primarily Italy. Travel, and writing about Italian architecture informed his own work, and while a part of…
The Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, completed in 1875.
Academy Hall, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1865.
Sears Building, Boston, Massachusetts, 1868-69.
Hotel Boylston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1871.