Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

and

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

from Boston, Massachusetts. Among his works are the original illustrations for ''

Uncle Tom's Cabin ''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U ...

'' (both the initial printing and an expanded 1853 edition), the

National Monument to the Forefathers The National Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the ''Pilgrim Monument'', commemorates the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims. Dedicated on August 1, 1889, it honors their ideals as later generally embraced by the United States. It is thought t ...

, the Civil War monument in Concord, Mass., and the 19th-century granite canopy (since replaced) for the

Plymouth Rock Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known writt ...

memorial. He worked for some years with his brother

Joseph Edward Billings Joseph Edward Billings was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century. Among his business partners were his brother Hammatt Billings and Charles Frederick Sleeper. He served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and belonged to ...

, also an architect. He was the artist of one of the well-noted portrayals of the

Battle of Lexington The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, ...

Selected designs

Wesleyan Building, Boston (Bromfield Street) __NOTOC__ The Wesleyan Building (est.1870) of Boston, Massachusetts, is located on Bromfield Street in the vicinity of Downtown Crossing. Architects Joseph Billings and Hammatt Billings designed it as the headquarters of the Methodist Boston Wesle ...

, 1870 * College Hall, the original structure at

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial ...

, 1871–1875, destroyed by fire in 1914 *

Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church The Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 740 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, was built in 1862 from a design by architect Hammatt Billings.King's handbook of Boston. 1881; p.162. In the late 1960s it became the New Hope B ...

* Boston Museum (theatre) *

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Image:1850 Liberator HammattBillings design.png, Liberator masthead, designed by Billings, 1850 Image:ElizaEngraving.jpg, Illustration from

, 1853 Image:1853 HammattBillings BostonAlmanac.png, 1853 advertisement for "Hammatt Billings, designer and architect" Image:Plymouth Rock 1867.jpg, Plymouth Rock canopy, 1867 (replaced in 1920)

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* * * 1818 births 1874 deaths American illustrators Architects from Boston Artists from Boston 19th-century American architects {{US-architect-stub

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