Wright, David G. (Author)
Helen W. Davis (Author)
Edward M. Hatch (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-22
For the last half of his professional career, architect-engineer Alexander Parris (1780-1852) worked for the United States Navy, designing and/or superintending some of the most substantial engineering and manufacturing facilities undertaken by the government during the first half of the nineteenth century. Economic, political, architectural and technological considerations in the realization of seven major projects completed by the architect while engaged with the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, are considered in the paper. Speculation as to why such a successful private architect, designer of the Faneuil Hall Markets and the St. Paul's Church of Boston, and the "Church of the Presidents" of Quincy, would spend so much time in governmental service is considered. References to other activities of the architect while employed within the public sector are included.
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