Word: upjohn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...time the building was completed in 1840, the dazed Corporation of Trinity found itself possessed of a brownstone building embracing such popish symbols as a cross on the steeple and a deep chancel, and Richard Upjohn was the most famed architect in the U. S. Such a business in parish churches did Richard Upjohn & sons do that it has been said that if all the Upjohn churches from New York to Buffalo should be simultaneously fired at no point between the two cities would the smoke of the steeples be out of sight...
...beard and the talent of Richard Michell Upjohn were both shorter than those of his illustrious father, but he had a burning pride in his firm, inherited his father's deep devotion to the Episcopal Church and the Gothic style. Buildings by Upjohn II include the Connecticut Capitol at Hartford, Boston's Central Congregational Church, St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn, Manhattan's Trinity School...
...Hobart Upjohn, taking heed from his brothers, for years refused to be an architect, practiced as a civil engineer. In 1902 a letter intended for his father reached him, asking him to design a church for Watertown, N. Y. Before Hobart Upjohn could explain the mistake, he found himself awarded the contract. Watertown's vestry was quite satisfied when the church was finished, and in 1905 Hobart Upjohn found himself head of the House of Upjohn...
...services of the three Upjohns to the Episcopal clergy did not end with designing churches for them. All three married clergymen's daughters. Hobart Upjohn's Trinity Church. Geneva. N. Y., is practically a copy of Grandfather Upjohn's own Trinity Church in Manhattan. Grandson Upjohn is perhaps best known as the author of the International Correspondence School textbooks on architecture...