[MassHistPres] Earliest Colonial Revival churches?

[SCeccacci at aol.com]

Tim,
Architect Stephen C. Earle of Worcester, Massachusetts, remodeled the 1834  
Trinitarian Congregational Church in Norton, Massachusetts, in the Colonial 
 Revival style in 1884.  See Curtis Dahl. Stephen C. Earle,  Architect:  
Shaping Worcester's Image.  Worcester: Worcester  Heritage Preservation 
Society and Worcester Historical Museum, 1987,  for  information on Earle and his 
work and p. 34, for an illustration of the  church.  The style might also be 
called a version of Queen Anne.  This  wood church is sheathed in clapboard 
and wood shingle.  There is not  an attempt here to reproduce a Colonial 
period church or meeting  house. 
 
The church is still standing.  Here is its website:  
http://www.tccnorton.org/  Images of  the building can also be found on Google images.
 
Susan McDaniel Ceccacci
Architectural Historian
Jefferson, Massachusetts 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/4/2013 8:39:58 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ttorwig at aol.com writes:

Colleagues:
 
I received an inquiry from a Ph.D. student at the University of Delaware,  
Josh Probert. Josh asks, What are the earliest Colonial Revival  churches? 
Josh is examining the ecclesiastical commissions of Tiffany  & Co. I remember 
a similar discussion on this listserve some time back,  but not that we 
came to any conclusions. Any ideas to pass on to Josh?
 
 
"I am a PhD candidate at the University of Delaware in the program in  
material culture studies that is in cooperation with Winterthur. My  
dissertation is on ecclesiastical aesthetics during the Gilded Age using  Tiffany 
Studios as a focal point. 

"I am wondering about the Colonial Revival during this time in terms  of 
religious architecture. Certain buildings are saved like St. Michael's in  
Charleston, etc.; but do you have a sense of when Colonial Revival churches  
first emerged? The twentieth century is saturated with these red brick  
churches, but I don't know if anybody has written about when they first  emerged. 
Was it the same time as domestic houses? 

"Tiffany Studios produced a ton of Colonial Revival domestic  interiors and 
furnishings, some similar to Wallace Nutting's exact copies of  antique 
pieces. But they didn't do anything Colonial Revival for churches. Its  seems 
like that aesthetic didn't become popular until after the firm closed  during 
the Great Depression. But I'm not sure."
 
"I am interested in buildings from 1877 to 1932--the periodization of my  
dissertation, which begins with the first ecclesiastical commission of 
Tiffany  and the dedication of Trinity Church in Boston and ends with the Great  
Depression and the bankruptcy of Tiffany Studios."

 
I know of a full Colonial Revival design by Joseph Everett Chandler in  
1894 for the new building of First Parish Church in Plymouth, which (for a  
number of reasons) the parish rejected in favor of a late Romanesque Revival  
design. Other observations?
 

Timothy Orwig
Lecturer, Northeastern  University
ttorwig at aol.com



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