Francis Richmond Allen (1843-1931), was the architect of our 1898-1899 renovation, Lindsey Chapel, and the baptistery in our sanctuary.  Having studied at Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and École des Beaux Arts, Paris, he later received an LL.D. from his alma mater and an honorary M.A. from Williams College. His firm Allen & Collens designed buildings at Andover Theololgical Seminary in Cambridge and many other locations. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, Boston Society of Colonial Wars, and Society of Mayflower Descendants.  Our nave’s baptistry was dedicated to his daughter Ruth, who had died in infancy in 1888.

Charles Collens (1873-1956), architect, worked with F.R. Allen and in 1904 became his partner in Allen & Collens.  He designed the stone columns in our nave.

Alexander Rice Etsy

Alexander Rice Esty (1826-1881).    Architect of our original church, known for his Gothic Revival churches, he had trained with Richard Bond and Gridley James Fox Bryant.  Other Esty buildings include Church of Our Saviour, Brookline, which was also founded by Lawrences, and the Old Cambridge Baptist Church.

Norcross Brothers worked with F.R. Allen to build our expanded sanctuary in 1898.

L.P. Soule & Sons of Boston was the general contractor for Lindsey Chapel.  They had built the Tremont Temple in 1894.

John McArthur Vance (1868-1948), architect, worked on the 1898 renovation of our building.  He studied architecture at MIT until 1891, when he began to work with F.R. Allen.  He became partner in 1897 and remained associated with him until 1902.

See also the Architects & Craftsmen of Lindsey Chapel.