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

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington (Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christin ...

and one of the founders of the

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chapter of AIA. 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 James M. Dickson, sometimes written as James M. Dixon, was a minister, farm owner, and state legislator in Mississippi. He was enslaved from birth. He represented Yazoo County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873. He also ser ...

, 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 Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House is a historic United Methodist church located at 2-10 Mount Vernon Place, Mount Vernon in Baltimore, Maryland. The church "is one of the most photographed buildings in the city, completed ...

, 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) St. Stephen's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Earleville, Cecil County, Maryland. North Sassafras Parish, as it was originally known, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland, named ...

(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 The Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South in St. Louis, Missouri is a Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. T ...

, in St. Louis, Missouri, NRHP-listed in 1996 *

Lesley-Travers Mansion Lesley-Travers Mansion, also known as the Deemer House, Travers House, and Lesley House, is a historic home located at New Castle, Delaware, New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Baltimore architects Thomas Dixon (arc ...

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* Grand Opera House in

* Baltimore County Circuit Courthouse, at

, 1854.Baltimore County Panorama, Brooks & Parsons, , p. 29 * Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 1215 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. (Dixon,Thomas), NRHP-listed * Grace United Methodist Church, 9th and West Streets,

(Dixon,Thomas,Esq.), NRHP-listed * Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital and Gatehouse, (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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Thomas 19th-century American architects Architects from Baltimore People from Wilmington, Delaware * 1886 deaths Architects from Delaware 1819 births