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__NOTOC__ George Frederick Meacham (July 1, 1831 - December 4, 1917) was an architect in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the 19th century. He is notable for designing Boston's Public Garden; the Massachusetts Bicycle Club; and churches, homes, and monuments in greater Boston and elsewhere in New England. He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to Giles Meacham and Jane Meacham.〔George F. Meacham dead, was old-time architect. Boston Globe, Dec. 5, 1917; p.10.〕〔Harvard graduates' magazine. 1918.〕〔Harvard alumni bulletin. 1917.〕 He was graduated from Harvard College in 1853. After college he worked as a civil engineer for the Jersey City Water Works.〔Report of the Harvard Class of 1853. 1913.〕 By 1855 he returned to Boston and worked for an architecture firm there. He practiced as an architect from 1857 through 1891, and in that time produced numerous designs.〔 People associated with the office of G.F. Meacham included Henry Martyn Francis,〔Ellery Bicknell Crane. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. Lewis Pub. Co., 1907; p.304.〕 George Pyne,〔Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis, 1909.〕 and Shepherd S. Woodcock.〔Boston Directory 1862.〕 Meacham married Mary Warren (d.1877) in 1859; they had two children who died very young.〔 Several years after the death of his first wife, he married Ellen Louisa Frost in 1881.〔 == Selected designs == * Public Garden, Boston, Massachusetts (1860)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Public Garden )〕〔Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.〕 * Burial ground, Shirley, Massachusetts (ca.1864)〔Seth Chandler. History of the town of Shirley, Massachusetts: from its early settlement to A.D. 1882. S. Chandler, 1883.〕 * South Congregational Church, New Britain, Connecticut (1865-1868)〔(The Congregational quarterly ), 1871.〕 * Workers' lodgings, France (ca.1866).〔William Richards Lawrence. (Charities of France in 1866 ). Gould and Lincoln, 1867. Includes illustrations.〕 * Soldiers' monument, Brighton, Massachusetts (1866)〔New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1867.〕 * Completion of Merrill G. Wheelock's design for the Masonic temple, Boston MA (1867)〔William D. Stratton. Dedication memorial of the new Masonic temple, Boston. Lee and Shepard, 1868.〕 * Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Riverside Cemetery, Main Street, Fairhaven, Massachusetts (ca.1868)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Fairhaven memorials )〕 * Alterations to Charles Bowdoin Fillebrown house, Newton, Massachusetts (ca.1874-1910). * Tremont-Street Mall curb and fence, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts (ca.1875)〔Boston (Mass.), Engineering Dept. Annual report, 1868.〕 * Addition to Newton Public Library (ca.1880), Newton, Massachusetts〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=City of Newton )〕 * House, 10 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts (1880)〔Douglass Shand-Tucci. Built in Boston: city and suburb, 1800-2000, 2nd ed. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2000; p.96.〕 * Channing Church, 75 Vernon Street, Newton, Massachusetts (1881)〔King's handbook of Newton, Massachusetts. 1889.〕 * Massachusetts Bicycle Club, 152 Newbury St., Boston, Massachusetts (1884)〔S.H. Day. The new house of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club. (Outing and the Wheelman ): an illustrated monthly magazine of recreation. 1884-1885; p.429+〕〔AIA guide to Boston, 3rd ed. 2008.〕 * Hartley Lord house, Kennebunk, Maine (1884-1885)〔Kevin D. Murphy. The architecture of Summer Street, Kennebunk, Maine. The Magazine Antiques (1971) v. 168 no. 2; p. 54-63. Includes illustrations.〕 * Levi B. Gay house, 303 Franklin St., Newton, Massachusetts (1887)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discover historic Newton Corner )〕 * Eliot Church, Newton, Massachusetts (ca.1888)〔〔(Church building quarterly ). American Congregational Union, 1888. Includes illustrations of the church.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Meacham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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