Maginnis & Walsh

Maginnis & Walsh
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC

Maginnis & Walsh was an architecture firm started by Charles Donagh Maginnis and Timothy Walsh in 1905. It was known for its innovative design of churches in Boston in the first half of the twentieth century.

Maginnis was born in Derry, Ireland. He emigrated to Boston at age 18 and got his first job apprenticing for architect Edmund M. Wheelwright as a draftsman. Influenced by the work of modern architect Ralph Adams Cram, Maginnis became a distinguished Gothic architect and an articulate writer and orator on the role of architecture in society.

In the Boston area he built St. Catherine of Genoa Church on Spring Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts, regarded as a masterpiece. St. Catherine's, begun in 1907 and completed in 1921, is still (2010) a working parish. He also built St. Aidan's in Brookline, Massachusetts where he was a parishioner along with the Kennedy family and other prominent Irish-Americans. St. Aidan's, the location of the christening of John F. Kennedy, has since been closed and may be converted into housing in the near future. The firm also designed Our Lady of the Presentation Catholic Church in the Oak Square neighborhood of the Brighton section of Boston. That church was also closed by the Archdiocese of Boston in 2005, but it has not yet been converted to another use. In 1909 Maginnis & Walsh won the bid to build the new campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and he built Emmanuel College in the Fens area of Boston, Massachusettsin 1914. Maginnis also designed the chancel at Trinity Church in Copley Square, the high altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York and the Massachusetts Veterans War Memorial Tower on the summit of Mount Greylock. Also designed by the firm is Our Lady of Sorrows church located in South Orange, New Jersey, which was dedicated in 1931. In 1948 Maginnis received the AIA Gold Medal for "outstanding service to American architecture," the highest award in the profession. He died in 1955.

The Maginnis and Walsh collection at the Boston Public Library contains work of the architectural firm from 1913 to 1952.

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Works Include

Archdiocese of Boston

Diocese of Worcester

Diocese of Fall River

Diocese of Springfield

Blessed Sacrament Church, Northampton, Massachusetts

Diocese of Providence

Diocese of Burlington Vermont

Diocese of Portland, Maine

Archdiocese of Hartford

Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Archdiocese of New York

  • St. Andrew Church (Manhattan), New York (with Robert J. Reilly)
  • Regis High School (New York City)[5]
  • St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York (new Lady Chapel altar, new high altar and Balanchino, cathedral designed by James Renwick Jr.)

Diocese of Brooklyn

  • Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Forest Hills, New York

Diocese of Albany

Diocese of Ogdensburg

  • St. Mary's Cathedral, Ogdensburg, NY

Diocese of Marquette (Michigan)

Archdiocese of Newark

Archdiocese of Baltimore

Archdiocese of Philadelphia

  • Holy Name Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Diocese of Scranton

Archdiocese of Washington, DC

Diocese of Gary, Indiana

Archdiocese of Milwaukee

  • St. Robert Church, Shorewood, WI

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Diocese of Dubuque

Diocese of Des Moines

Diocese of Cheyenne

Outside United States

  • Holy Redeemer Cathedral, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
  • Our Lady of the Snows Church, Campbellton New Brunswick, Canada
  • St. Patrick Church, Mexico City, Mexico

References

  1. ^ http://www.bahistory.org/StJohnsHistory.html t. John Siminary, Brighton Massachusetts History
  2. ^ http://www.nps.gov/applications/parks/jofi/ppdocuments/SA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf St. Aiden Church, Brookline Ma
  3. ^ a b c d http://www.bc.edu/offices/omc/lindenlane/releases/transforming-light.html Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College
  4. ^ a b http://college.holycross.edu/projects/worcester/neighbors/holycross.htm College of thew Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
  5. ^ Norval White and Elliot Willensky with Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition, (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2010), p.453.
  6. ^ http://www.cathedralofmary.org/ Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, baltimore Maryland
  7. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=G_Q9HG34cRkC&pg=PT17&dq=%22Maginnis+and+Walsh%22&hl=en&ei=y2FZTaPrJMXOgAfygvHaDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Maginnis%20and%20Walsh%22&f=false Shirne of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC
  8. ^ http://dcfossils.org/index.php/gallery7/ Sacred Heart Church, Washington DC
  9. ^ http://www.booktown.com/stcroixprints/plan.php?id=6438 drawing of New Apostolic Mission House
  10. ^ http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2ET4_Carmelite_Monastery_Santa_Clara_CA Carmelite Convent, Santa Clara, california
  11. ^ http://www.restoreallsaints.org/history.htm Newspaper articles on restoration of All Siants Church, Stuart IA
  12. ^ http://www.dioceseofcheyenne.org/history/1912_McGovern_Stansell.html St. Joseph Childrens Home, Torrington, Wyoming

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