Henry Vaughan (architect)

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Henry Vaughan around 1907

Henry Vaughan (* 1845 or 1846 in Cheshire ; † June 30, 1917 in Boston ) was an architect.

Henry Vaughan was born in England and grew up in Scotland. He worked temporarily with George Frederick Bodley and emigrated to Boston in 1881. He came to America on one of the ships owned by William T. Glidden and initially lived with the family of this ship owner and railroad king. For this family he designed the Gladisfen house .

Two years after Vaughan's arrival in the United States, Glidden donated St. Andrew's Church to the Newcastle Congregation, which Vaughan had planned. The church is significantly influenced by St. Peter's in Melverley , Shropshire , which dates from 1406.

Vaughan made a name for itself primarily through its sacred and school buildings in the neo-Gothic style on the east coast. He designed several buildings for Bowdoin College and was commissioned to design the National Cathedral in Washington, DC , but died of lung cancer before he could complete the work. Vaughan was buried in the National Cathedral.

One of his main clients was Edward Francis Searles. He had the All Saints Episcopal Church (today St. Andrew's) in Methuen (Massachusetts) planned by Vaughan. The foundation stone was laid in 1904. In 1904 Searle Vaughan had Searles High School built in Methuen. In 1905 Vaughan built the Central School in Methuen on Searle's order, and in 1908 the train station. In 1909 the Serlo Organ Hall was inaugurated.

A private estate by Edward Francis Searles, which Vaughan planned, is known as Stanton Harcourt or simply Searles Castle .

literature

  • William Morgan, The Almighty Wall. The Architecture of Henry Vaughan , New York 1983, ISBN 0-262-13187-0
  • William Morgan, Henry Vaughan. An English Architect in New Hampshire , in: Historical New Hampshire 28, No. 2, 1973

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Vaughan (architect). In: arch INFORM .
  2. ↑ http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Henry+Vaughan
  3. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / standrewsnewcastle.org
  4. ↑ http://www.goruma.de/Staedte/W/Washington/sehenswuerdheiten.html
  5. ↑ http://www.methuenhistory.org/photos.htm
  6. ↑ Bryan Franklin Tolles and Caroly K. Tolles, New Hampshire Historical Society , Univ. Pr. Of New England, Reprint 1979, ISBN 0-8745-1167-4 , pp. 67 f.
personal data
SURNAME Vaughan, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1845 or 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1917
Place of death Boston