Item level control. Also includes postcards and photographs of various buildings and other architectural examples, especially from Italy. Finding aid available. Most of the correspondence deals with architectural jobs, including those at Boston College and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Among the correspondents are Boston College President Thomas Gasson and Walter Gropius.
Publications touch on various topics in the field of architecture.
There is some biographical information on Maginnis and his partner Timothy Walsh. Maginnis was born in Derry, Ireland and educated in Dublin. In 1885 he came to the United States and worked in several architectural firms before co-founding Maginnis, Walsh, and Sullivan. From 1906 Maginnis and Walsh specialized in Catholic Church architecture. Their commissions included the first buildings at Boston College's Chestnut Hill campus.