George Meacham
George Frederick Meacham (July 1, 1831 - December 4, 1917) was an architect in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the 19th century. He is notable for designing Boston's Public Garden; the Massachusetts Bicycle Club; and churches, homes, and monuments in greater Boston and elsewhere in New England. He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to Giles Meacham and Jane Meacham.[1][2][3] He was graduated from Harvard College in 1853. After college he worked as a civil engineer for the Jersey City Water Works.[4] By 1855 he returned to Boston and worked for an architecture firm there. He practiced as an architect from 1857 through 1891, and in that time produced numerous designs.[4] People associated with the office of G.F. Meacham included Henry Martyn Francis,[5] George Pyne,[6] and Shepherd S. Woodcock.[7] Meacham married Mary Warren (d.1877) in 1859; they had two children who died very young.[4] Several years after the death of his first wife, he married Ellen Louisa Frost in 1881.[4]
Selected designs
- Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts (1860)[8][9]
- Burial ground, Shirley, Massachusetts (ca.1864)[10]
- South Congregational Church, New Britain, Connecticut (1865-1868)[11]
- Workers' lodgings, France (ca.1866).[12]
- Soldiers' monument, Brighton, Massachusetts (1866)[13]
- Completion of Merrill G. Wheelock's design for the Masonic temple, Boston MA (1867)[14]
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Riverside Cemetery, Main Street, Fairhaven, Massachusetts (ca.1868)[15]
- Alterations to Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown house, Newton, Massachusetts (ca.1874-1910).
- Tremont-Street Mall curb and fence, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts (ca.1875)[16]
- Addition to Newton Public Library (ca.1880), Newton, Massachusetts[17]
- House, 10 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts (1880)[18]
- Channing Church, 75 Vernon Street, Newton, Massachusetts (1881)[19]
- Massachusetts Bicycle Club, 152 Newbury St., Boston, Massachusetts (1884)[20][21]
- Hartley Lord house, Kennebunk, Maine (1884-1885)[22]
- Levi B. Gay house, 303 Franklin St., Newton, Massachusetts (1887)[23]
- Eliot Church, Newton, Massachusetts (ca.1888)[19][24]
References
- ↑ George F. Meacham dead, was old-time architect. Boston Globe, Dec. 5, 1917; p.10.
- ↑ Harvard graduates' magazine. 1918.
- ↑ Harvard alumni bulletin. 1917.
- 1 2 3 4 Report of the Harvard Class of 1853. 1913.
- ↑ Ellery Bicknell Crane. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. Lewis Pub. Co., 1907; p.304.
- ↑ Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis, 1909.
- ↑ Boston Directory 1862.
- ↑ City of Boston. "Public Garden".
- ↑ Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
- ↑ Seth Chandler. History of the town of Shirley, Massachusetts: from its early settlement to A.D. 1882. S. Chandler, 1883.
- ↑ The Congregational quarterly, 1871.
- ↑ William Richards Lawrence. Charities of France in 1866. Gould and Lincoln, 1867. Includes illustrations.
- ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1867.
- ↑ William D. Stratton. Dedication memorial of the new Masonic temple, Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1868.
- ↑ "Fairhaven memorials". Millicent Library.
- ↑ Boston (Mass.), Engineering Dept. Annual report, 1868.
- ↑ "Two Hundred Years of Libraries in Newton". City of Newton.
- ↑ Douglass Shand-Tucci. Built in Boston: city and suburb, 1800-2000, 2nd ed. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2000; p.96.
- 1 2 King's handbook of Newton, Massachusetts. 1889.
- ↑ S.H. Day. The new house of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club. Outing and the Wheelman: an illustrated monthly magazine of recreation. 1884-1885; p.429+
- ↑ AIA guide to Boston, 3rd ed. 2008.
- ↑ Kevin D. Murphy. The architecture of Summer Street, Kennebunk, Maine. The Magazine Antiques (1971) v. 168 no. 2; p. 54-63. Includes illustrations.
- ↑ "Discover historic Newton Corner". City of Newton.
- ↑ Church Building Quarterly. American Congregational Union, 1888. Includes illustrations of the church.
Further reading
- Curb, stone or fence: what is the best plan for enclosing the Common? Hearing on the Subject in the City Hall, Yesterday. Boston Daily Globe, May 26, 1875. p. 8.
- "George F. Meacham (1831-1917)". A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine. 1984.