Arthur H. Vinal

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Arthur H. Vinal (1854–1923) was an American architect who lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts. Vinal started a partnership with Henry F. Starbuck in 1877; the firm broke up when Starbuck moved away. Vinal was City Architect of Boston from 1884 to 1887. He is principally known for his Richardsonian Romanesque High Service Building at the Chestnut Hill Water Works (1887). In addition to his other public buildings, Vinal designed numerous residences in Boston and nearby suburbs (not all, or even mostly, romanesques).

[edit] Other works

• Methodist Church, Farmington, Maine (1877)
• Bangor Opera House, Bangor, Maine (1881)
• Back Bay fire and police station, 941–955 Boylston Street, Boston (1886, Richardsonian Romanesque)
• Fisher Hill Reservoir, Brookline, Massachusetts (1887)
• Dorchester Temple Baptist Church (1889, shingle style)
• apartment building, 492–498 Massachusetts Avenue and 779–781 Tremont Street, South End, Boston (1897)
• Globe theater (burlesque and later B movie house), later known as the Center and the Pagoda, 690 Washington Street, Boston (1903, French Renaissance)
• Calais Public Library, Calais, Maine (opened July 4, 1893)
• Mt. Kineo House Hotel, Mount Kineo, Moosehead Lake, Maine (opened July 29, 1884)

[edit] Images

941–955 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1886

The High Service Building at Chestnut Hill Water Works, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1887

Fisher Hill Reservoir gatehouse, Fisher Avenue, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1887

[edit] References

• National Register nomination for Bowditch School, Jamaica Plain
• Biography of Henry F. Starbuck
• Dorchester Atheneum
• History of Chestnut Hill Reservation, Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation
• Spaulding & Slye Colliers press release
• Ian Grundy. Center Theatre. Cinema Treasures. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.