Willard T. Sears

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Willard Thomas Sears (November 5, 1837 – May 21, 1920) was a prominent New England architect of the ninettenth and early twentieth centuries who worked primarily in the Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival styles.

In 1861, Sears opened an architectural studio with Charles Amos Cummings. Together as Cummings and Sears, they designed many significant buildings, primarily ecclesiastical and academic, in and around Boston, including Brechin Hall and the Stone Chapel at Phillips Academy in Andover, the Old South Church on Copley Square (1875), and the Cyclorama (1884).

In 1896, Sears was hired by Isabella Stewart Gardner to design her home, Fenway Court, in Boston's Fenway neighborhood. Upon her death Fenway Court became the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum^[1]. In 1897, he designed the Roosevelt Cottage for Mrs. Hartman Kuhn at Roosevelt Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada.^[2]. In 1898, Sears was commissioned to design the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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1. ^ ISGM Exhibitions: The Making of the Museum - Construction. gardnermuseum.org (2003). Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
2. ^ Roosevelt Campobello International Park. p. 6. fdr.net (2003). Retrieved on 2007-02-12.

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NAME	Sears, Willard Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Willard T.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	designer of several important New England and American buildings.
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1920
PLACE OF DEATH