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Willard T. Sears was born in 1837 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
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Chapel in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
new Old South on Boylston Street
(a distinguished edifice com¬pleted in 1876)
a distinguished edifice com¬pleted in 1876
WILLARD T. SEARS
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He began work in Boston for the late Gridley J. F. Bryant.
In the early sixties he formed a partnership with Charles A. Cummings (Cummings & Sears) and under the firm name designed a number of churches, including the new Old South on Boylston Street, a distinguished edifice completed in 1876, and the First Unitarian Church in Lynn. After 1895 Mr. Sears moved his office to the old Mason Building, 70 Kilby Street, where he
carried on work alone the rest of his life. During that period he planned a number of hotels in Boston, the Chapel in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, and what was undoubtedly his most noted residence, the home of Mrs Isabel Gardner in the Boston Fenway, later remodeled and after her death opened as an Art Museum.
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A charter member of the Boston Society of Architects in 1870.
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May 21, 1920 (aged 82) -
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American
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1860
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1895