Thomas Waldron Sumner (1768–1849) was an architect and government representative in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century."Lived in Boston; was an architect; Representative 1805–11, '16, '17..." , pp.21, 49-50 He designed East India Marine Hall and the Independent Congregational Church in Salem;Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr. Architecture in Salem: an illustrated guide. NH: University Press of New England, 2004 and the South Congregational Society church in Boston. He was also involved with the Exchange Coffee House, Boston.Jane Kamensky. Exchange Artist: a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse. Viking, 2008.
In Boston he lived on Cambridge StreetBoston Directory, 1796 and Chamber Street,Boston Directory, 1805 and later moved to Brookline.R.G.F. Candage. "The Gridley House, Brookline, and Jeremy Gridley." Publications of the Brookline Historical Society, 1903 He belonged to the Boston Associated Housewrights Society"Boston Associated Housewrights Society, instituted 1804. Thos. W. Sumner, president." cf. The Massachusetts manual, or, Political and historical register. Boston: Callender, 1814 and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association.Alpheus Cary. Addresses delivered before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ... 6th triennial celebration. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1824 Sumner married Elizabeth Hubbard (1770–1839); children included Caroline Sumner (born 1796) and Thomas Hubbard Sumner. His parents were engineer James Sumner (1740–1814) and Alice Waldron (died 1773).Appleton. 1879Descendants may have included the architects Greene & Greene. cf. Kenneth Hafertepe, James F. O'Gorman. American architects and their books, 1840–1915, Books 1840–1915. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2007 The artist John Christian Rauschner created portraits of Sumner and his wife.
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