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Thomas W. (Thomas William) Silloway

1828–1910

Best remembered for designing hundreds of churches across the eastern United States, this 19th-century architect also spent part of his life in the ministry. His career joined practical building skill with a strong interest in religious life and civic design.

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The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Description of Cities, Cathedrals, Lakes, Mountains, Ruins, and Watering-places.

The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Description of Cities, Cathedrals, Lakes, Mountains, Ruins, and Watering-places.

by Thomas W. (Thomas William) Silloway, Lee L. Powers

About the author

Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1828, Thomas William Silloway trained in architecture in Boston and went on to become one of the most prolific church architects of his era. Sources consistently credit him with designing more than 400 church buildings, along with public structures such as town halls, libraries, and memorial buildings.

He is also remembered as a Universalist minister as well as an architect, which helps explain why so much of his work centered on religious communities. His buildings appeared across the eastern United States, and his name is especially associated with church design in New England.

Silloway died in 1910. Although he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, his long career left a large physical mark on 19th-century American religious and civic architecture.