# Thomas Silloway

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'''Thomas William Silloway''' (August 7, 1828 – May 17, 1910) was an American [architect](/source/architect), known for building over 400 [church](/source/church_(building)) buildings in the eastern United States.

Silloway was born in [Newburyport, Massachusetts](/source/Newburyport%2C_Massachusetts), and raised a [Methodist](/source/Methodism) by his parents, Susan Stone Silloway and Thomas Silloway, Sr., a coppersmith. As a teenager, Silloway was apprenticed to a [housewright](/source/housewright) and as a clerk in an East India merchant store.

In 1844 Silloway became a [Universalist](/source/Universalist). He was educated in the local public schools, at Brown High School, and in the local Latin School. In 1847 he began studying under [Ammi B. Young](/source/Ammi_B._Young), designer of the [Boston Custom House](/source/Boston_Custom_House). In 1851 he began his own architecture practice. In 1862 Silloway started a second career as a Universalist minister in New Hampshire, Boston, and [Brighton, Massachusetts](/source/Brighton%2C_Massachusetts). He left the ministry in 1867 when his architectural work increased. Silloway had diverse interests in architecture, [theology](/source/theology), music, and [genealogy](/source/genealogy), and published many books on diverse topics. 

By the time he died in 1910 Silloway was credited for designing more church buildings than any other individual in America.<ref>http://www.bahistory.org/HistorySilloway.html (accessed April 11, 2010)</ref><ref>William P. Marchione, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XtH3W8Wkn30C Allston-Brighton in Transition: From Cattle Town to Streetcar Suburb] (The History Press, 2007)</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcBBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA401|title=American Art Annual, Volume 8|publisher=MacMillan Company|year=1911|pages=401}}</ref> [Robert Charles Bates](/source/Robert_Charles_Bates), an early African American architect and teacher, had studied under Silloway from 1885 to 1893.<ref name="Tome School For Boys-1912">{{Cite book |last= |first= |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xs72fK_-ro0C&pg=PA9 |title=Tome School for Boys |date=1912 |publisher=Tome School For Boys |page=9 |language=en |chapter=Robert Charles Bates, M.A.}}</ref>

==Notable works==
* [Highrock Church](/source/Highrock_Church), ca. 1841, [Arlington, Massachusetts](/source/Arlington%2C_Massachusetts)
* [Milford Town Hall](/source/Milford_Town_Hall), 1853, [Milford, Massachusetts](/source/Milford%2C_Massachusetts)
* [Vermont State House](/source/Vermont_State_House), 1858, [Montpelier, Vermont](/source/Montpelier%2C_Vermont)
* [East Hall](/source/East_Hall_(Tufts_University)), 1860, [Medford, Massachusetts](/source/Medford%2C_Massachusetts)
* [First Congregational Church](/source/First_Congregational_Church_(Waltham%2C_Massachusetts)), 1870, [Waltham, Massachusetts](/source/Waltham%2C_Massachusetts)
* Memorial Hall, 1870, [Oakland, Maine](/source/Oakland%2C_Maine)
* [Roslindale Baptist Church](/source/Roslindale_Baptist_Church), 1884, [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts)
* [Unitarian Church in Charleston](/source/Unitarian_Church_in_Charleston), 1886, [Charleston, South Carolina](/source/Charleston%2C_South_Carolina)
* Conway Public Library, ca. 1901, Conway, NH
* [Dexter Universalist Church (Dexter, Maine)](/source/Dexter_Universalist_Church_(Dexter%2C_Maine)), 1869, [Dexter, Maine](/source/Dexter%2C_Maine)

==Publications by Silloway==
* Thomas William Silloway, Lee L. Powers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0IwMAAAAYAAJ The cathedral towns and intervening places of England, Ireland and Scotland] (A. Williams, 1883 ) 
 
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