ART
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Trinity Church
Historic Buildings: Place of Worship

Architect
Henry Hobson Richardson
Dates
  • Constructed, 1877
Landmark Designations
  • National Register of Historic Places
  • National Historic Landmark
 Podcasts
A Guide to Trinity Church - Douglass Shand-Tucci
Description
Trinity Church, a national historic landmark, was awarded to iconic American architect Henry Hobson Richardson in a design competition in 1872. With its monumental stone porches, arches and buttresses building up to a massive central tower, capped with pinnacles and turrets and presenting a rich complex of ever-shifting shapes and unexpected sequences of pattern in color and texture, Trinity Church embodies a fuller and more mature realization of the visual and intellectual implications present...
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Location
Copley Square
206 Clarendon Street
Boston , MA
United States

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