Thomas Dixon (1819 - July 25, 1886) was a Presbyterian architect born in

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and one of the founders of the

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chapter of

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. He was the father of minister Thomas Freeman Dixon, an 1893 graduate of

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. He partnered with his brother, James M. Dixon, from 1851 until James's death in 1863. In 1871, he partnered with another well-known Baltimore architect

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for some time doing business from their offices at 117 Baltimore Street as Thomas Dixon and

until sometime before 1877 when the partnership was dissolved. In 1827, he was elected Honorary Academician at the

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. He was married to Rebecca Howard, with whom he had one son: Rev. L. Freeman Dixon. He was living at 253 North Eutaw Street in Baltimore at the time of his death.

Selected works

* Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House, North Charles Street and East Mount Vernon Place, (East Monument Street), opposite the

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, (1872), listed on the

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(NRHP) in 1971. * St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville, Maryland) (1870-1874), listed on the

in 1982. * Aged Women's and Aged Men's Homes, now th
Pickersgill Retirement Community

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*Dixon Hill neighborhood of

* Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in

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, NRHP-listed in 1996 *

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* Grand Opera House in

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, at

, 1854.Baltimore County Panorama, Brooks & Parsons, , p. 29 * Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 1215 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,

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(Dixon, Thomas), NRHP-listed * Grace United Methodist Church, 9th and West Streets,

(Dixon, Thomas, Esq.), NRHP-listed *

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, (North) Charles Street Avenue,

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, (Dixon, Thomas & James M.), NRHP-listed * St. Mary's Episcopal Church/Woodlawn, 5610 Dogwood Road, Woodlawn, Maryland,

, (Dixon & Carson), NRHP-listed

References

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