Day: December 21, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: H. H. Richardson Sketches Trinity Church

Shortly after March 12, 1872, the architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) received a letter, signed by George Minot Dexter and Charles Henry Parker on behalf of the Building Committee, inviting him to enter a competition to design a new church building for Trinity Church in Boston. Though terse and factual in formulation, the letter led…