Joseph Edward Billings

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Joseph Edward Billings was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century.[1] Among his business partners: brother Hammatt Billings and Charles Frederick Sleeper.[2] He served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia[3][4] and belonged to the Boston Artists' Association.

Designs

National Theatre, West End, Boston, 1850s; designed by Billings & Sleeper
J.E. Billings
Billings & Billings
  • Temple Club, West St., Boston[2]
  • Boston Museum[2]
  • Grace Episcopal Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1851[2]
  • Cathedral Building, Boston, 1873[2]
  • Thayer Library, Braintree, Massachusetts, 1874[2]
  • College Hall, Wellesley College, 1875[2]
Billings & Sleeper

References

  1. Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the American Institute of Architects, 1893
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 James F. O'Gorman. "H. and J. E. Billings of Boston: From Classicism to the Picturesque." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mar., 1983)
  3. Frank Torrey Robinson. History of the Fifth Regiment, M.V.M. Boston: W. F. Brown & Co., printers, 1879
  4. Massachusetts in the army and navy during the war of 1861-65. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1895
  5. "Boston Navy Yard's tall chimney." New York Times, March 4, 1906
  6. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 07-07-1852
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