{{Short description|American architect}} '''Thomas Jasper Collins''' (August 2, 1844 - October 6, 1925),<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38997659 Find A Grave entry for T. J. Collins]</ref> commonly known as '''T. J. Collins''', was an American architect. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later became an architect, practicing first in Washington, D.C., before moving to Staunton, Virginia in 1890.<ref name=VHC>{{cite book|title=Virginia's Historic Courthouses|author=John O. Peters, Margaret T. Peters|pages=172–174|year=1995|publisher=University of Virginia Press |isbn=0813916046}}</ref> His firm became '''T. J. Collins & Sons''' which continued to operate in the 1990s under the management of Collins' grandson.<ref>{{cite web|title=T.J. Collins and Sons|publisher=Historic Staunton Foundation|url=http://www.historicstaunton.org/T%20J%20collins/TJ%20Collins.htm|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918000728/http://www.historicstaunton.org/T%20J%20collins/TJ%20Collins.htm|archivedate=2012-09-18}}</ref> He is credited with the design of numerous courthouses in Virginia and over 200 buildings in Staunton from 1891 to 1911.<ref name=VHC/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/01/05/onArchitectureEyeCandyStau.html |title=Eye candy: Staunton cures visual blues |date=January 5, 2006 |newspaper=The Hook}}</ref> T.J. Collins retired in 1911; the firm was then run by his sons William and Samuel Collins.<ref name=nrhpdocVAdhr_OakleyFarm>{{cite web|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Bath/008_0040_Oakley_Farm_2007_NRFinal.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Oakley Farm |author=J. Daniel Pezzoni |date=March 26, 2007 |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Bath/008-0040_Oakley_photographs.htm accompanying four photos]</ref>
A number of Collins' and the firm's works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
Works include: *Augusta County Courthouse, 1 E. Johnson St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Augusta Military Academy, N of Staunton on U.S. 11, Fort Defiance, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *1921 expansion of Augusta Stone Church, N of Staunton on U.S. 11, Fort Defiance, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Bath County Courthouse, built 1913–14, across the road to the north of Oakley Farm<ref name=nrhpdocVAdhr_OakleyFarm/> *Beverley Historic District, U.S. 250 and VA 254, Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Breezy Hill, 1220 N. Augusta St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Cobble Hill Farm, 101 Woodlee Rd., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J. and Sons), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Fishburne Military School, 225 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro, Virginia (Collins, T. J., & Sons), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Gospel Hill Historic District, Roughly bounded by E. Beverly, N. Market, E. Frederick and Kalorama Sts., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J. & Son), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Arista Hoge House, 215 Kalorama St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins & Hackett), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Kable House, 310 Prospect St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J. & Son), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *C. W. Miller House, 210 N. New St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *National Valley Bank, 12-14 W. Beverly St., Staunton, Virginia (Collins, T. J. & Son), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Oakley Farm, 1921-22 remodelling to Colonial Revival style, 11865 Sam Snead Highway (US 220) Warm Springs, Virginia (Collins, T. J. & Sons), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Rockingham County Courthouse, Courthouse Square Harrisonburg, Virginia (Collins, T. J.), NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *Staunton station of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Middlebrook Avenue, Staunton, Virginia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://porterbriggs.com/t-j-collins-architect/|title=The Canvas of T.J. Collins|website=porterbriggs.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-16}}</ref>
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