Arthur Gilman

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'''Arthur Delevan Gilman''' {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (November 5, 1821, Newburyport, Massachusetts – July 11, 1882, Syracuse, New York) was an American architect, designer of many Boston neighborhoods, and member of the American Institute of Architects.

==Life and career== Gilman was a descendant of Edward Gilman, Sr., one of the first settlers of Exeter, New Hampshire.<ref>Wilson, James Grant. Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Gilman, Arthur, architect", Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1990.</ref> Gilman was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1844, he published a paper on "American Architecture" in the ''North American Review'', which was translated into several foreign languages. He was then invited to deliver twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, after which he went to Europe on a tour of professional observation.

On his return to Boston, he advocated filling in the Back Bay district, urging this plan for years before his views were carried out by the state. Here Gridley James Fox Bryant was his colleague. Commonwealth Avenue, now one of the finest streets in the world, is due almost entirely to his persistent efforts, along with Frederick Law Olmsted. Gilman designed the H. H. Hunnewell house (1851) in Wellesley (then West Needham),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wellesleyma.gov/pages/wellesleyma_nrc/2010%20OSRP%20Plan%20DRAFT%206-9-2015.pdf|title=Draft Open Space and Recreation Plan, 2015-2022, Town of Wellesley, MA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212065138/http://www.wellesleyma.gov/pages/wellesleyma_nrc/2010%20OSRP%20Plan%20DRAFT%206-9-2015.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-12|url-status=dead}}</ref> St. Paul's Church in Dedham, Massachusetts,<ref name=spire>{{cite news |newspaper = The Dedham Times | page = 8 | date = May 9, 2025 | title = St. Paul's tower and spire are being renovated | volume = 33 | number = 9}}</ref> and, with Bryant, the Old City Hall in Boston (1862–65).

In 1865, he moved to New York City, where he designed the original Equitable Insurance Company's building, the Bennett Building for ''The New York Herald'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1937.pdf|title=Bennett Building Designation Report|last=Harris|first=Gale|date=November 21, 1995|website=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission}}</ref> and St. John's Church and parsonage<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://6tocelebrate.org/site/st-johns-p-e-rectory-staten-island/|title=St. John's P.E. Rectory, Staten Island {{!}} Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate|website=6tocelebrate.org|date=23 April 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-10}}</ref> circa 1869<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stjohnssi.org/im-new-here/church-history.html|title=St. John's Episcopal Church :: Church History|website=www.stjohnssi.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-05-10}}</ref> in Clifton, Staten Island.

==Works== In addition to the projects mentioned above, he also designed: * St. Paul's Church (1858), Dedham, Massachusetts<ref>{{cite book |author=Dedham Historical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRpMDQffkGsC |title=Images of America: Dedham |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7385-0944-0 |page=27 |access-date=August 11, 2019}}</ref> * Christ Church (1860), Brookline, Massachusetts * Horticultural Hall (1865), Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts, with Bryant

==References== '''Notes''' {{reflist}}

'''Sources''' * {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Gilman, Arthur (architect)|year=1900|display=Gilman, Arthur, architect}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Arthur D. Gilman}} * [https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/3460604/ Benjamin J. Stark residence (New London, Conn.) : architectural drawings, 1866]. [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html/ Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623062924/http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html/ |date=2019-06-23 }}, [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery.html/ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University].

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