page_title: Asher Benjamin
section_title: Designs
hierarchical_section_title: Asher Benjamin / Designs
caption_attribution_description: English: Ionic Order, Plate No. 12
context_page_description: Asher Benjamin was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal architecture and the later Greek Revival architecture. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities and towns throughout New England until the Civil War. Builders also copied his plans in the Midwest and in the South.
context_section_description: 1796—Luke Baldwin House, Brookfield, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1796—Samuel Hinckley House, Northampton, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1796-1797—Coleman-Hollister House, Greenfield, Massachusetts
  1797 -- Leavitt-Hovey House (now Greenfield Public Library), Greenfield, Massachusetts
  1797-1798—First Deerfield Academy Building (now Memorial Hall), Deerfield, Massachusetts
  1798-1799—Stebbins House, Deerfield, Massachusetts
  1798—Old South Congregational Church, Windsor, Vermont
  1800—Fullerton House, Windsor, Vermont (demolished)
  1802—Harriet Lane House, Windsor, Vermont (demolished)
  1803—Hubbard House, Windsor, Vermont (demolished)
  1804 -- Charles Street Meeting House, 70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1806 -- Old West Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1806 -- African Meeting House, 8 Smith Court, Boston, Massachusetts
  1807 -- Sumner Mansion, Hartland, Vermont
  1808 -- Headquarters House, 54-55 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1808—60 or 61 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1808—Fourth Meeting House of the First Church, Chauncy Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1809—First Parish Church, Ashby, Massachusetts
  1809 -- Exchange Coffee House, Boston
  1811—Alexander House, Springfield, Massachusetts
  1811-1812—Fourth Meeting House, Northampton, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1812-1814—Center Church, New Haven, Connecticut (with Ithiel Town)
  1817—Rhode Island Union Bank, Newport, Rhode Island (demolished)
  1819—Boylston Villa, Princeton, Massachusetts (For Ward Nicholas Boylston)
  1820—Ransom Stiles House, Argyle, New York
  1824-1827—The Black House, Ellsworth, Maine
  1825—Unitarian Church, Peterborough, New Hampshire
  1826-1832 -- Asa Waters Mansion, Millbury, Massachusetts
  1827—Unitarian Church, Canal Street, Nashua, New Hampshire
  1827—Olive Street Church, Nashua, New Hampshire (demolished)
  1828—70-75 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1830—Isaac Munson House, South Wallingford, Vermont (demolished)
  1832—Cambridgeport Town Hall, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1833—Asher Benjamin House, 9 West Cedar Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1833—7 West Cedar Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1834 -- Thatcher Magoun Mansion, Medford, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1835—Lexington-Concord Battle Monument, Peabody, Massachusetts
  1836—Dr. George Shattuck Monument, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts
  1836—William Ellery Channing House, 83 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1836 -- Forest Home, the F. O. J. Smith House, Westbrook, Maine (demolished)
  1837—Proposal for the Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts (competition lost to Ammi B. Young)
  1838-1839—Fifth Universalist Church (now the Charles Playhouse), 74 Warrenton Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  1840—Richmond Street Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts (demolished)
  1841—Edmund Hastings House, Medford, Massachusetts (demolished)
caption: Ionic order, from The Architect, or, Practical House Carpenter 1830
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