Peter Banner was an English-born architect and builder who designed the
Park Street Church
Park Street Church, founded in 1804, is a historic and active evangelical congregational megachurch in Downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The Park Street Church is a member of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. Typical attendance a ...
in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
, and other buildings in New England in the early 19th century.
Life and career
Banner trained in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, and moved to America. In 1798, he moved from New York to New Haven, designing and building several buildings for Yale College. He began working in the Boston area around 1805, when Ebenezer Craft (born 1779) commissioned Banner to build his house in Roxbury. Around 1806 to 1808, Banner supervised the building of
India Wharf. In Boston he also designed the Park Street Church (1809), located next to the
Boston Common.
As well as being familiar with architecture through books, Banner was a skilled carpenter-joiner and mason, as well as a contractor, even worked on his own buildings. At various times he worked with Solomon Willard and others.
Selected designs
* 1799 – President's house,
Yale College
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...
, New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1800 – Berkeley Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1804 – Lyceum, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1804 –
First Parish in Brookline Church, Brookline, Massachusetts.
* 1805 – Crafts house, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
* 1809 – Park Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1811 – Parish houses for
Old South Church
Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, (also known as New Old South Church or Third Church) is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles ...
, Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1816 – First
Unitarian Church, Burlington, Vermont
* 1818 – Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
American Antiquarian Society
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References
Notes
External links
Image of Berkeley Hall
Yale College.
Image of Lyceum
Yale College.
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Architects from Boston
Architects from New Haven, Connecticut
English emigrants to the United States
English architects