Matthew Sullivan
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Matthew Sullivan (1868-1948) worked for many years as a distinguished Boston architect specializing in ecclesiastical design. A Boston native, Sullivan. trained in the office of Edmund Wheelwright. who was then City Architect (1891-1894). Sullivan succeeded Wheelwright as City Architect and served in that position from 1895 to 1901, when he became a junior partner along with Charles Donagh Maginnis and Timothy Walsh in the firm of Maginnis Walsh and Sullivan which was videly known for its ecclesiastical work. He withdrew from that partnership to carry on work independently in 1906. Among other commissions credited to Sullivan are the College of the Sacred Heart in Providence, Harkins Hall at Providence College, and various religious buildings in the Archdiocese of Boston and the southeastern Massachusetts towns of Fall River, Fairhaven, and Mattapoisett.