Peter Banner was an English-born architect and builder who designed the

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, and other buildings in New England in the early 19th century.

Life and career

Banner trained in

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, and moved to America. In 1798, he moved from New York to New Haven, designing and building several buildings for Yale College. He began working in the Boston area around 1805, when Ebenezer Craft (born 1779) commissioned Banner to build his house in Roxbury. Around 1806 to 1808, Banner supervised the building of

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. In Boston he also designed the Park Street Church (1809), located next to the

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. As well as being familiar with architecture through books, Banner was a skilled carpenter-joiner and mason, as well as a contractor, even worked on his own buildings. At various times he worked with Solomon Willard and others.

Selected designs

* 1799 – President's house,

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, New Haven, Connecticut. * 1800 – Berkeley Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. * 1804 – Lyceum, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut. * 1804 – First Parish in Brookline Church, Brookline, Massachusetts. * 1805 – Crafts house, Roxbury, Massachusetts. * 1809 – Park Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts. * 1811 – Parish houses for

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, Boston, Massachusetts. * 1816 – First Unitarian Church, Burlington, Vermont * 1818 – Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.American Antiquarian Society
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