J. Williams Beal

Portrait of J. Williams Beal

J. Williams Beal (1855-1919) was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, in the later 19th-century.^[1] He trained at MIT and then worked for McKim, Mead & White before opening his own business.^[2] His successors, J. Williams Beal & Sons, built the Masonic Temple (Quincy, Massachusetts) in 1926, and other area buildings.

Designed by Beal

• Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church / All Souls' Church, Roxbury, Boston (1888)^[3]
• Harriswood Crescent rowhouses, Harold St., Roxbury, Mass. (1890)^[4][5]
• Peabody-Williams House, Newton, Mass. (1891)
• Church of the Unity, Randolph, Mass. (ca.1892)^[6]
• First Baptist Church, Lexington, Mass. (1892-1893)^[7][8]
• Congregational Church, North Middleboro, Mass. (ca.1895)^[9]
• Baptist Church, Brockton, Mass. (1908-1909) ^{[10] [11]}
• Charles A. Burdett house, Intervale, New Hampshire (ca. 1910) ^[12]
• Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds), Moultonborough, New Hampshire (1913-1914)^[13]
• Mayflower Inn on Manomet Point, Plymouth, Mass. (1917)
• First National Bank Building, Northampton, Mass. (1928)

References

1. Boston almanac. 1884, 1887, 1891, 1894
2. Technology Review, Volume 21, 1919
3. The Unitarian, May 1892
4. "Roxbury Crossing Historical Trust".
5. Catalogue of the first annual exhibition of the Boston Architectural Club: held at Horticultural Hall, from Tuesday, May 13, to Saturday, May 31, 1890
6. The Unitarian, May 1892
7. Charles Hudson. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: History. Houghton Mifflin, 1913
8. "History - First Baptist Church".
9. Church building quarterly, April 1895
10. Christian Art, v.2, 1908
11. "First Baptist Church, Brockton, MA".
12. Good Housekeeping Magazine, v.50, pp.364-369, 1910
13. New Insights on the History of Castle in the Clouds