Thomas Silloway
Highrock Church, Arlington, Massachusetts (c. 1841), one of Silloway's earliest works
Memorial Hall, Oakland, Maine (1870)
Thomas William Silloway (August 7, 1828 – May 17, 1910) was an American architect, known for building over 400 church buildings in the eastern United States.
Silloway was born in
housewright
and as a clerk in an East India merchant store.
In 1844 Silloway became a
Brighton, Massachusetts. He left the ministry in 1867 when his architectural work increased. Silloway had diverse interests in architecture, theology, music, and genealogy, and published many books on diverse topics. By the time he died in 1910 Silloway was credited for designing more church buildings than any other individual in America.[1][2][3]
Notable works
- Highrock Church, ca. 1841, Arlington, Massachusetts
- Milford Town Hall, 1853, Milford, Massachusetts
- Vermont State House, 1858, Montpelier, Vermont
- East Hall, 1860, Medford, Massachusetts
- First Congregational Church, 1870, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Memorial Hall, 1870, Oakland, Maine
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Unitarian Church in Charleston, 1886, Charleston, South Carolina
- Conway Public Library, ca. 1901, Conway, NH
Publications by Silloway
- Thomas William Silloway, Lee L. Powers, The cathedral towns and intervening places of England, Ireland and Scotland (A. Williams, 1883 )
References
- ^ http://www.bahistory.org/HistorySilloway.html (accessed April 11, 2010)
- ^ William P. Marchione, Allston-Brighton in Transition: From Cattle Town to Streetcar Suburb (The History Press, 2007)
- ^ American Art Annual, Volume 8. MacMillan Company. 1911. p. 401.
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