Henry Vaughan (architect)

Vaughan was born in Cheshire, England. When he was a child, his family relocated to Dollar in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. He attended Dollar Academy, and was awarded a bronze medal in art from the school in 1863. He then began his apprenticeship under Bodley, eventually becoming head draftsman at the firm of Bodley and Garner.

In 1881, Vaughan came to America traveling on the Atlantic Clipper a packet owned by the Glidden and Williams Shipping Company - whose founder William T Glidden lived in Newcastle, ME. Vaughan knew Mr. Glidden and lived at his home on Glidden street in Newcastle ME in 1881 - 1883 in Newcastle, Maine where he designed and built St. Andrews Church( www.standrewsnewcastle.org) which was dedicated on November 22, 1883 on Glidden Street. Later Vaughn moved to Boston and opened an office in Pemberton Square. He married Mary Shellow a few years later and they had ten children together. He rapidly found success with the Anglican (Episcopal) and Catholic churches. His first commission( not true??- please see above) in the USA was the Chapel of the Society of Saint Margaret.

In the mid-1880s, Vaughan began to receive commissions from Edward Francis Searles, working on numerous projects continuing through until Vaughan's death.

Vaughan died in 1917 in the Boston suburb of Newton Centre, and was interred at the Washington National Cathedral.[1]

Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC

Christ Church, New Haven, CT

Notable Vaughan projects include:

• Chapel of the Society of Saint Margaret, Boston, MA (1881-2)
• St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dorchester, MA (1888)
• portions of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, particularly the chapels to Saint Boniface (1916), Saint James (1916), and Saint Ansgar (1918)
• Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. (with Bodley, later work by Philip Frohman)
• The Episcopal Church of the Mediator in Kingsbridge, NY, called "the little cathedral of the Bronx" (as of October 2009, this structure and some of its major interior art pieces and Tiffany windows are in need of significant restoration due to water damage from a leaking roof) (1913)
• Christ Church, New Haven, CT (1895-8)
• Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY (with Ralph Adams Cram, 1902-4)
• St. John's Chapel, at Groton School, Groton, MA (1899-1900)
• Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul, at St. Paul's School, Concord, NH (1886-8, 1894)[2]
• The Thistles, a private home in Dublin, NH
• Amasa Stone Chapel, at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (1911)
• Church of the Redeemer Chestnut Hill, MA (1913-5, 1920)
• Church of the Holy Innocents (Hoboken, New Jersey) (1885)

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  St. John's Chapel, Groton School
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  Chapel, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
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  Searles High School (1898) closed, Great Barrington, MA
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  Searles High School (1904), now City Hall for Methuen, MA
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  Searles Castle (1905-1915), Windham, NH

William Morgan, The Almighty Wall: The Architecture of Henry Vaughan. New York: The Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press, 1983.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Vaughan (architect).

• Methuen Memorial Music Hall
• Searles Castle
• American Institute of Architects, Architectural Record, v. 42, page 286, 1917.
• William Morgan Writings on Henry Vaughn at Dartmouth College Library