Matthew Sullivan
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Matthew Sullivan (1868-1948) was an American architect whose practice specialized in ecclesiastical design.
A Boston native, Sullivan. trained in the office of Edmund Wheelwright. 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 in the firm of Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan. This firm was widely 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 the main building of Providence College, and various religious buildings in. the southeastern Massachusetts towns of Fall River, Fairhaven, and Mattapoisett.
[edit] Sullivan’s work includes
- St Agnes Church Reading, MA
- Blessed Sacrament Church, Walpole, MA
- St. Lazarus Church, East Boston, MA
- St. Terese Church, Everett, MA
- St. Joseph Church, Haverhill, MA
- St. Joseph Rectory, Everett, MA (church by Walter Fontaine)
- St. Mary Church, Franklin, MA
- St. Leo the Great Church, Pawtucket, RI
- St. Augustin Church, Newport, RI
[edit] References
Hayman, Robert W. (1995). Catholicism in Rhode Island and the Diocese of Providence Volume Two, Providence: Diocese of Providence. Library of Congress Number: 94-69200 page 410, 419, 445, 586-587, 598, 592
