Matthew Sullivan

Matthew Sullivan (1868–1948) was an American architect whose practice specialized in ecclesiastical design.

Early life and architectural training

Sullivan was born in Boston and trained in the office of Edmund M. Wheelwright, Boston 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.

Architectural practice

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.

Sullivan’s work includes

• St Agnes Church Reading, MA
• Blessed Sacrament Church, Walpole, MA
• St. Mary Church, Walpole, MA
• St. Lazarus Church, East Boston, MA
• St. Mark School, Dorchester, MA
• St. Terese Church, Everett, MA
• St. Rose School, Chelsea, MA
• Holy Family Church, Lynn, MA
• St. Joseph Church, Haverhill, MA
• St. Joseph Rectory, Everett, MA (church by Walter Fontaine)
• St. Mary Church, Franklin, MA
• St. John the Baptist Church, New Bedford, MA^[1]
• St. Leo the Great Church, Pawtucket, RI
• Sacred Heart Church (now known as Annunciation of The Lord Church), Taunton, Massachusetts
• St. Augustin Church, Newport, RI
• St. Benedict Church, Warwick, Rhode Island (church has been replaced)

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