Maginnis & Walsh

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.

Maginnis & Walsh was an architecture firm started by Charles Donagh Maginnis and Timothy Walsh in 1905. It was known for its innovative design of churches in Boston in the first half of the twentieth century.

Maginnis was born in Derry, Ireland. He emigrated to Boston at age 18 and got his first job apprenticing for architect Edmund M. Wheelwright as a draftsman. Influenced by the work of modern architect Ralph Adams Cram, Maginnis became a distinguished Gothic architect and an articulate writer and orator on the role of architecture in society.

In the Boston area he built St. Catherine of Genoa Church on Spring Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts, regarded as a masterpiece. St. Catherine's, begun in 1907 and completed in 1921, is still (2010) a working parish. He also built St. Aidan's in Brookline, Massachusetts where he was a parishioner along with the Kennedy family and other prominent Irish-Americans. St. Aidan's, the location of the baptism of John F. Kennedy, has since been closed and may be converted into housing in the near future. The firm also designed Our Lady of the Presentation Catholic Church in the Oak Square neighborhood of the Brighton section of Boston. That church was also closed by the Archdiocese of Boston in 2005, but it has not yet been converted to another use. In 1909 Maginnis & Walsh won the bid to build the new campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and he built Emmanuel College in the Fens area of Boston, Massachusetts in 1914. Maginnis also designed the chancel at Trinity Church in Copley Square, the high altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York and the Massachusetts Veterans War Memorial Tower on the summit of Mount Greylock. Also designed by the firm is Our Lady of Sorrows church located in South Orange, New Jersey, which was dedicated in 1931. In 1948 Maginnis received the AIA Gold Medal for "outstanding service to American architecture," the highest award in the profession. He died in 1955.

The Maginnis and Walsh collection at the Boston Public Library contains work of the architectural firm from 1913 to 1952.

Works

Archdiocese of Boston

Diocese of Worcester

Diocese of Fall River

Diocese of Springfield

Blessed Sacrament Church, Northampton, Massachusetts

Diocese of Providence

Diocese of Burlington Vermont

Diocese of Portland, Maine

Archdiocese of Hartford

Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Archdiocese of New York

Diocese of Brooklyn

Diocese of Albany

Diocese of Ogdensburg

Diocese of Marquette (Michigan)

Archdiocese of Newark

Archdiocese of Baltimore

Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Diocese of Scranton

Archdiocese of Washington, DC

Diocese of Gary, Indiana

Archdiocese of Milwaukee

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Archdiocese of Dubuque

Diocese of Des Moines

Diocese of Cheyenne

Schools, colleges, universities, and seminaries

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA[14]

  • Gasson Hall (1913) (The signature building of BC).[15][16]
  • St. Mary's Hall and Chapel (1917) [17][18]
  • Devlin Hall (1924) [17][19][20]
  • Bapst Library (1924? 1928?) (The fourth building on BC campus.)[17][21]

The above four buildings are the "original architectural gems" of the campus. (-Fr. Charles F. Donovan) [17] The additional Gothic buildings (or "English Collegiate Gothic") that had been part of the original campus plan (1909,[22] 1928[23]) were no longer feasible to construct after the economic crash of 1929. Architect partner Timothy F. Walsh would die in 1934 (aged 66).[24]

Firm's original partner, Charles Donagh Maginnis, died in 1955 (88 yrs of age).

Emanuel College, Boston, MA

  • Administration Building and Chapel [31]

The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

  • Basilica of The National Shrine of The Immaculate Conception (started in 1919; completed 1959). The largest Catholic Church in North America.[22][32] "The architectural style is composite of a Romanesque exterior and a Byzantine interior."[33]

Georgetown Preparatory School, Rockville, MD

Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA

Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart

Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT

  • McDonough and Mercy Halls - 1935 [47]

St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, MD

  • Main Administration Building - 1929 (Beaux Arts Classical Revival Style).

Trinity Washington University (formerly Trinity College), Washington D.C.

University of Northwestern (formerly Northwestern College) St. Paul, MN

  • Nazareth Hall - 1923 [51]
  • Nazareth Hall Chapel - 1923 [52]
  • Island Chapel and Peninsula - 1925 [53]

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN[54]

Hospitals

Boston's Children Hospital?

References to "Children's Hospital" are found in "[Boston] City Auditor's of the Receipts and Expenses" Reports (1912-1913, 1913-1914, 1914–1915); and the "Documents City of Boston, For The Year 1914."

Uncertain if this facility is within the "Boston Consumptives Hospital" campus or a separate facility altogether.

Boston Consumptives Hospital (Boston Sanatorium

A "tuberculosis hospital," this 52-acres campus had 18 buildings[62]), Dorchester, MA [63][64]

  • Administration or Foley Building (1910, 1928-1930) (The largest building on campus)
  • Doctors' residences, Dormitories or Wards (4) (ca. 1910) (currently vacant and are decaying [reported 2016])
  • The Power House (1903)

Outside United States

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  2. ↑ https://www.sjs.edu/aboutus/chapel-architecture/ St. John's Seminary
  3. ↑ http://www.nps.gov/applications/parks/jofi/ppdocuments/SA%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf St. Aiden Church, Brookline Ma
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  5. 1 2 http://college.holycross.edu/projects/worcester/neighbors/holycross.htm College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
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