Thomas Waldron Sumner (1768–1849) was an architect and government representative in

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, in the early 19th century. He designed East India Marine Hall and the Independent Congregational Church in Salem; and the South Congregational Society church in Boston. He was also involved with the Exchange Coffee House, Boston. In Boston he lived on Cambridge Street and Chamber Street, and later moved to

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. He belonged to the Boston Associated Housewrights Society and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association. Sumner married Elizabeth Hubbard (1770–1839); children included Caroline Sumner (born 1796) and

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. His parents were engineer James Sumner (1740–1814) and Alice Waldron (died 1773). The artist John Christian Rauschner created portraits of Sumner and his wife.

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Image:GardnerSumner house Brookline Massachusetts 19thc SPNEA.png, Sumner's home in Brookline, Mass. (photo Historic New England) Image:IndependentCongregationalChurch SalemMA ca1892 photo by FrankCousins.png, Independent Congregational Church, Salem; built in 1825 (photo 1890s). Designed by Sumner. Image:East India Marine Hall Salem Massachusetts edit.jpg, East India Marine Hall, Salem; built 1825. Designed by Sumner. Image:1875 PierceHall BrooklineMA BPL.png, Pierce Hall, Brookline, Mass., built 1825. Designed by Sumner (photo Boston Public Library) Image:DivinityHall HarvardUniversity ca1880s.png, Divinity Hall, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.; built 1826. Designed by Sumner and Solomon Willard.Bryant F. Tolles Jr. Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860. NH: UPNE, 2011 Image:SouthCongregational Boston HomansSketches1851.jpg, South Congregational Church, Boston; built in 1828. Designed by Sumner.

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