Thomas Dixon (1819 - July 25, 1886) was a Presbyterian architect born in
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...
and one of the founders of the
Baltimore
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chapter of
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. He was the father of minister Thomas Freeman Dixon, an 1893 graduate of
Princeton Theological Seminary
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. He partnered with his brother,
James M. Dixon, from 1851 until James's death in 1863. In 1871, he partnered with another well-known Baltimore architect
Charles L. Carson
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for some time doing business from their offices at 117 Baltimore Street as Thomas Dixon and
Charles L. Carson
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until sometime before 1877 when the partnership was dissolved. In 1827, he was elected Honorary Academician at the
National Academy of Design
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.
He was married to Rebecca Howard, with whom he had one son: Rev. L. Freeman Dixon. He was living at 253 North Eutaw Street in Baltimore at the time of his death.
Selected works
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Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House
Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House is a historic United Methodist Church, United Methodist church located at 2-10 Mount Vernon Place, Mount Vernon, Baltimore, Mount Vernon in Baltimore, Maryland. The church "is one of the ...
,
North Charles Street and East Mount Vernon Place, (East Monument Street), opposite the
Washington Monument
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, (1872), listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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(NRHP) in 1971.
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville, Maryland) (1870-1874), listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
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Aged Women's and Aged Men's Homes, now th
Pickersgill Retirement Community Towson, Maryland
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*Dixon Hill neighborhood of
Baltimore
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Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in
St. Louis, Missouri
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, NRHP-listed in 1996
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Lesley-Travers Mansion in
New Castle, Delaware
New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The city is located six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington and is situated on the Delaware River. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 5,285.
History
New Castl ...
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Grand Opera House in
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...
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Baltimore County Circuit Courthouse
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, at
Towson, Maryland
Towson () is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorpo ...
, 1854.
[Baltimore County Panorama, Brooks & Parsons, , p. 29]
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Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 1215 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
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(Dixon,Thomas), NRHP-listed
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Grace United Methodist Church, 9th and West Streets,
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington ( Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...
(Dixon,Thomas,Esq.), NRHP-listed
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Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse
The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, known to many simply as Sheppard Pratt, is a psychiatric hospital located in Towson, a northern suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1853, it is one of the oldest private psychiatric hospitals in the nati ...
,
(North) Charles Street Avenue,
Towson, Maryland
Towson () is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 55,197 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorpo ...
,
Baltimore County
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, (Dixon,Thomas & James M.), NRHP-listed
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St. Mary's Episcopal Church/Woodlawn, 5610 Dogwood Road,
Woodlawn, Maryland,
Baltimore County
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, (Dixon & Carson), NRHP-listed
References
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19th-century American architects
Architects from Baltimore
People from Wilmington, Delaware
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1886 deaths
Architects from Delaware
1819 births