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Charles Amos Cummings was born on June 26, 1833 at Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Amos and Rebecca (Hopkins) Cummings.
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Charles Amos Cummings was born on June 26, 1833 at Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Amos and Rebecca (Hopkins) Cummings.
After preparing for college in the English High School of Boston, he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, where he graduated in 1849 with the degree of C. E.
During college he pursued an intensive course in engineering, the effect of which later appeared in his architectural work in which, notwithstanding a peculiar sympathy, there was a lack of creative esthetic imagery and an adherence to archeological fact.
His early professional training was gained in the office of G. J. FI. Bryant.
Extensive travel and study in Europe and Egypt brought to him strength and vitality in the expression of his architectural ideas. When in 1872 the business district of Boston was devastated by an extensive fire, it became the task of the local architects to replace, with efficiently designed structures, the edifices which had been destroyed.
His employment of motives based upon Florentine and Venetian Gothic prototypes had resulted in interestingly decorated facades with a comparatively meager window space; changing commercial requirements and the availability of large sheets of plate glass established a demand for a much greater window area.
Cummings collaborated with W. P. P. Longfellow in the Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (18951903) and with R. Sturgis in the Dictionary of Architecture and Building (1901 - 02).
He died on August 11, 1905 in Boston.
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A widely recognized maturity of judgment resulted in Cummings’s appointment to many committees and boards : he was a member of the commission for the preserving and restoring of the Massachusetts State House, a member of the Art Commission of Boston, a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum.
On October 12, 1869, he was married to Margaret, daughter of Moses Kimball of Boston.