Robert P. Walsh collection of Maginnis & Walsh

Walsh, Robert P., 1893-1969

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Robert P. Walsh (1893-1969) was a draftsman and associate for Maginnis & Walsh. He married Alice Mary Maginnis (1909-1992), daughter of Charles D. Maginnis, around 1965....

Maginnis & Walsh

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In 1898, Charles D. Maginnis and Timothy F. Walsh went into partnership with Matthew Sullivan to form Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan. In 1906, Sullivan withdrew and the firm was renamed Maginnis & Walsh. In 1909, Maginnis & Walsh won the competition to build the new campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The collegiate Gothic design was deemed "the most beautiful campus in America" by The American Architect magazine and established the firm's reputation in collegiate and...

Gasson, Thomas Ignatius, 1859-1930

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Thomas Ignatius Gasson was born on September 23, 1859 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, to parents of French Heugenot and English ancestry. Gasson was educated at St Stephen's School in London, England. In 1872, following the death of his mother and his father’s subsequent remarriage, Gasson left England planning to join his elder brother in the United States. Failing to settle with his brother, Gasson attempted to support himself in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Two Irish women, Catherine ...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Boston College

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In 1863, a charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorized five Jesuits of Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to incorporate as “the Trustees of the Boston College.” Their South End school became the first chartered college to operate in Boston in September 1864, when twenty-two boys – with an average age of fourteen – enrolled and classes began. Enrollment was limited to boys but open to those of any religious background. The original grounds were cramped, consisting only of a ...

Walsh, Timothy F., 1868-1934

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Timothy F. Walsh was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 8, 1868. He graduated from the Boston English High School in 1885. Walsh entered the office of Peabody & Stearns as an architectural student and, after promotion to the post of draftsman, remained in the employ of the firm for a decade. In 1894, he left for a year of advanced study in Paris ateliers, after which he spent a year abroad in travel before returning to the U.S. In 1898, Walsh went into partnership with Charles D. M...

St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York, N.Y.)

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Maginnis, Charles Donagh, 1867-1955

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Charles Donagh Maginnis was born in Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland on January 7, 1867. He attended intermediate school in Londonderry and studied at Cusack’s Academy of Art in Dublin. In 1885, Maginnis immigrated to America with his widowed mother, brothers, and sisters, and eventually settled in Boston. In 1891, Maginnis began work as a designer in the office of Edmund M. Wheelwright, the City Architect of Boston. In 1898, Maginnis went into partnership with Timothy F. Walsh and Matthew Sullivan ...