Thomas Alexander Tefft

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Thomas Alexander Tefft's design for the Providence and Worcester Railroad freight house in Providence, Rhode Island.

Cannelton Cotton Mill, Cannelton, Indiana, designed by Thomas Alexander Tefft.

Thomas Alexander Tefft (August 2, 1826 – December 12, 1859) was an American architect. Born in Richmond, Rhode Island, he was a schoolteacher when he was encouraged by Henry Barnard to become an architect. While still a student at Brown University, Tefft designed the original Union Station in Providence and the Cannelton Cotton Mill in Cannelton, Indiana. Graduating from Brown in 1851, Tefft went to Europe in 1856 to study art and to promote his ideas for a uniform international currency. He fell ill in Florence and died there in 1859 at the home of his friend, the sculptor Hiram Powers. His remains were interred temporarily in the English Cemetery, Florence, then returned to Rhode Island.

[edit] Works

• George M. Bradley House, 1850, Providence, Rhode Island
• Cannelton Cotton Mill, 1849, Cannelton, Indiana
• Narragansett Baptist Church, 1850, Narragansett, Rhode Island
• Nightingale-Brown House (addition), 1853, Providence, Rhode Island
• Saint Thomas Church and Rectory, 1851, Greenville, Rhode Island
• St. Paul's Church (North Kingstown, Rhode Island), 1847

[edit] References

• Thomas Alexander Tefft: American Architecture in Transition, 1845-1860: an exhibition by the Department of Art, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1988. ISBN 0-933519-12-5
• Wriston, Barbara, Who Was the Architect of the Indiana Cotton Mill, 1849-1850?, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May 1965), pp. 171-173.

[edit] External links

• National Building Museum: Thomas Tefft

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