Patrick W. Ford

St Peter Church, Worcester Massachusetts

Saint Anselm College's Alumni Hall - 1889

Patrick W. Ford (1847–1900) was an Irish-American architect who, along with Patrick C. Keely of Brooklyn and James Murphy of Providence, Rhode Island designed many Roman Catholic churches built in the eastern part of United States through the latter half of the 19th century.

He was born in Ballincollig, Ireland, and educated at Queen's College Cork, Ford emigrated to the United States in the late 1860s. He lived for a time in New York City where he may have worked in the office of Patrick C. Keeley and then went to work for architect Elbridge Boyden in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Ford opened his own practice in Boston in 1872. He was widely recognized as an authority on church architecture and his practice focused primarily on designing churches and institutional buildings for the Roman Catholic Church in New England. Ford died suddenly at age 52 in August 1900.

Works

(partial list)

Sacred Heart Church, Roslindale, Massachusetts
St. Gregory Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts (1895 redesign of original church by James Murphy)
Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent, Cambridge, Massachusetts
St. Mary's Church, Dedham, Massachusetts
St. James Church, Haverhill, Massachusetts
Gate of Heaven Church, South Boston, Massachusetts
St. Peter Church, South Boston, Massachusetts
St. Patrick's Church, Watertown, Massachusetts
St. Mary Church, Everett, Massachusetts
St. Brendan Church, Bellingham, Massachusetts
St. John the Baptist Church, Lowell, Massachusetts
St. Augustine Church, Andover, Massachusetts
St. Mary Church, Winchester, Massachusetts
St. John the Evangelist Church, Clinton, Massachusetts
St. Peter's Church, Worcester, MA ^[1]
Saint Anselm College, Goffstown, NH
St. Dominic Church, Portland, ME
St. Mary of the Assumption Church Northampton, Massachusetts
St. James Church, New Bedford, MA (altered by Maginnis and Walsh)
1875 alteration to Fenwick Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Worcester, Massachusetts
Sacred Heart Church, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Notre Dame Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
All Saints Church, Ware, Massachusetts

No longer extant

St. Philip's Church, Boston, Massachusetts (burned)
St. Brigid's Church, Lexington, Massachusetts (burned)
Immaculate Conception Church, Revere, Massachusetts (demolished)
St. Anne Church, Worcester, Massachusetts (demolished)
St. Rose of Lima Church, Northborough, Massachusetts (burned)
St. Stephen Church, Framingham, Massachusetts (demolished)
Our Lady of the Rosary Church, South Boston, Massachusetts (demolished)
St. Michael Church, Exeter, NH (demolished)

Attributed to Ford

Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Spencer, Massachusetts

Gallery

Sacred Heart Church, Roslindale, MA
Gate of Heaven Church, South Boston, MA
St. Peter Church, South Boston, MA
St. Patrick Cuurch, Watertown MA

References

Notes

↑ http://college.holycross.edu/projects/worcester/neighbors/holycross.htm Holy Cross College

External links

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