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1937
GUSN-353913
This colored, perspective drawing depicts the chancel of Trinity Church on Copley Square in Back Bay, Boston, Mass. This drawing was a prize winning competition drawing for the Trinity Church chancel, by Maginnis & Walsh Architects in May 1937.
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19'' x 14'', ink and watercolor with gouache on paperboard, framed
AR001
General architectural and cartographic collection
2014
AR001.USMA.0250.011
May, 1937
Gift of James Volney Righter, 2014.
Back Bay (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Maginnis & Walsh (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
presentation drawings (proposals)
renderings (drawings)
churches (buildings)
altars (religious building fixtures)
chancel arches
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Trinity Church, situated on Copley Square in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and constructed from 1872 through 1877. In 1937, Maginnis & Walsh Architects won the competition to rebuild the chancel of Trinity Church. Maginnis & Walsh Architects, worked from 1908 to 1954, and was founded by Charles Dongh Maginnis and Timothy Walsh.
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