Gothic – Page 10 – Historic Buildings of Massachusetts

St. John’s Chapel, Cambridge (1868)

by Dan/July 5, 2009July 5, 2009/Cambridge, Churches, Gothic

Founded in 1867, the Episcopal Theological School (now the Episcopal Divinity School) hired the architectural firm of Ware and Van Brunt to design their campus on Brattle Street in Cambridge. The first building to be constructed was St. John’s Chapel. Modeled on an English parish church, it was built in 1868-1869. The chapel’s tower is constructed of Roxbury puddingstone. The original side entrance was joined by a new main entrance on the end, added in the 1960s.

Norton-Johnson-Burleigh House (1847)

by Dan/February 17, 2009September 17, 2016/Cambridge, Gothic, Houses

The Norton-Johnson-Burleigh House at 85 Brattle Street in Cambridge, is a Gothic-Revival villa built in 1847. The house was influenced by the ideas on villa architecture of Andrew Jackson Downing, but was modeled on a specific pattern, attributed to Henry Austin of New Haven, as printed in The Builder’s Guide by Chester Hills of Hartford.

Rev. John F. Moors House (1848)

by Dan/February 6, 2009September 17, 2016/Deerfield, Gothic, Houses

The home of Rev. John F. Moors in Deerfield was built in 1848. Rev. Moors was the minister at Deerfield’s Brick Church and later at the Greenfield Unitarian Church. He was also Chaplain of the Fifty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War and wrote the unit’s regimental history.

New Old South Church (1875)

by Dan/October 6, 2008March 21, 2009/Boston, Churches, Gothic

Boston’s New Old South Church, on Boylston Street, is located off Copley Square, not far from Trinity Church, and was built in 1874-5. At that time, the congregation moved from its famous eighteenth century meetinghouse. Designed in a Venetian or Northern Italian Gothic style by Charles Cummings, based on the High Victorian Gothic ideas of John Ruskin, the church makes a strong architectural statement on its prominent corner location, contrasting with the neoclassical Boston Public Library across the street. John Evans, a sculptor from Scotland, carved the exterior sculpture of both New Old South and Trinity churches. The original tower began to lean and was removed in 1931, eventually being replaced by a newer and shorter tower in 1941.