Alexander Parris
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Architect | Pilgrim Hall | Plymouth, MA | |||||
| Architect | Boston Naval Shipyard | Boston | |||||
| Architect | Joseph Holt Ingraham House | Portland, ME | |||||
| Architect | McLellan-Sweat Mansion | Portland, ME | |||||
| Architect | Mount Desert Light Station | Frenchboro | |||||
| Architect | Saddleback Ledge Light Station | Vinalhaven, ME | |||||
| Architect | Barnstable County Courthouse | Barnstable | |||||
| Architect | Matinicus Rock Light Station | Matinicus Island | |||||
| 1780/11/24 | Alexander Parris is born in Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. | Architect | Plymouth County, MA | ||||
| 1805/00/00 | Deering mansion and carriage barn are built for prominent Portland businessman, James Deering (1766-1850). | Architect | Deering Estate Barn | Portland, ME | |||
| 1807/06/24 | Cornerstone is laid at St John's Church, first brick church built in New Hampshire. | Architect | Practical House Carpenter | St John's Church | Portsmouth, NH | ||
| 1812/00/00 | Wickham-Valentine House is built for John Wickham. | Architect | Valentine Museum | Richmond | |||
| 1813/03/12 | Virginia Governor's Mansion is ready for occupancy, built 1811-1813 | Architect | Governor's Mansion | Richmond | |||
| 1815/00/00 | Plans for 42 Beacon St in Boston to be built of granite are prepared by Alexander Parris. | Architect | David Sears House | Boston | |||
| 1817/00/00 | Alexander Parris designs mirror image townhouses for Daniel P Parker and Nathan Appleton. | Architect | Nathan Appleton Residence | Boston | |||
| 1819/00/00 | Alexander Parris and Solomon Willard are commissioned by the vestry of the St Paul's parish to construct a Grecian temple that will contrast with Boston's existing churches, which are in the Georgian, Federal-Adameque and Gothic Revival styles. | Architect | Cathedral Church of St Paul | Boston | |||
| 1823/00/00 | Massachusetts General Hospital is built with coursed ashlar granite, cut and dressed by convicts from Charlestown Prison (lost), 1818-1823. | Architect | Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | |||
| 1826/00/00 | In the Fall, the First Parish Building committee selects Alexander Parris to design and supervise the construction of a new church in the Greek Revival style to be built of blue granite from the Quincy quarries. | Architect | United First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Quincy | Quincy | |||
| 1827/00/00 | Faneuil Hall Market opens. Structural support is provided by cast iron columns spaced along a central aisle down the length of the first floor. The side areas are divided into 128 stalls. The second floor has seven large halls, all directly connected. | Architect | Quincy Market, Boston | Boston | Invention of Structural Iron | ||
| 1828/06/16 | Three of the four monolithic granite columns used on the portico at First Parish Church are erected. The sanctuary is built of hammered granite, 1827-1828. The mahogany altar, and much of the rest of the building, is original. | Engineer | United First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Quincy | Quincy | |||
| 1850/00/00 | Designed and built (1848-49) by Alexander Parris. 6-story 72 ft tower has frustum shape. Gothic Revival style cut granite masonry keeper's dwelling (1867-68). Early example of wave swept tower engineering. | Architect | Execution Rocks Light Station | North Hempstead |
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