Trinity Rectory is an historic building at the corner of Clarendon Street and

Newbury Street Newbury Street is located in the Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. It runs roughly east–west, from the Public Garden (Boston, Massachusetts), Boston Public ...

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. It is a brick building built in 1880 by

Henry Hobson Richardson Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one ...

and features flower-shaped reliefs carved directly into the brick exterior. The building was added to the National Historic Register in 1972. Traditionally the residence of the rector of the

Trinity Church, Boston Trinity Church in the City of Boston, located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The congregation, currently standing at approximately 4,000 households, was founded in ...

, it has now been renovated to church office space when the current rector decided to live in a private residence.

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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1880 Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Massachusetts Henry Hobson Richardson buildings Back Bay, Boston Houses in Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1880 establishments in Massachusetts {{Boston-NRHP-stub

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