[ARCHITECTURE] Trinity Church of Boston, Massachusetts

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts (front detail)

 Known as one of the most popular buildings in the United States, the Trinity Church of Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1733. The church and parish house were constructed from 1872 to 1877 after a design by Henry Hobson Richardson. The Trinity Church established as the archetype of the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The building style took on across the United States with several public buildings features the characteristic clay roof and rough stone, heavy arches and tower in polychromy.

John LaFarge, William Moris and Edward Burne-Jones did the interior murals which cover about 2,000 square meters while Daniel Chester French and Augustus Saint-Gaudens did the houses sculptures.

The American Institute of Architects named the Trinity Church as one of the "Ten Most Significant Buildings in the United States", being the only US church in the top as well as the only building in Boston to have made the list.

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts (inside view)

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts (inside view)

 

Trinity Church Boston, Massachusetts (detail view)

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