Peter Banner was an English-born architect and builder who designed the Park Street Church

Park Street Church

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 in Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, and other buildings in New England in the early 19th century.

Brief Biography

Banner trained in London

London

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, and moved to America. In 1798 he moved from New York to New Haven, designing and building several buildings for Yale College. He began working in the Boston area around 1805, when Ebenezer Crafts commissioned Banner to build his house in Roxbury. Around 1806-1808, Banner supervised the building of India Wharf

India Wharf

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. In Boston he also designed the Park Street Church (1809), located next to the Boston Common

Boston Common

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"Banner, who was familiar with architectural books, was a skilled and practicing artisan as well, both a carpenter-joiner and a mason. Banner was a designer, contractor, and even worked on his own buildings." At various times he worked with Solomon Willard and others.

Selected Designs

• 1799 - President's house, Yale College
  Yale College
  Yale College was the official name of Yale University from 1718 to 1887. The name now refers to the undergraduate part of the university. Each undergraduate student is assigned to one of 12 residential colleges.-Residential colleges:...
  
  , New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1800 - Berkeley Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1804 - Lyceum, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1804 - Church, Brookline, Massachcusetts.
• 1805 - Crafts house, Roxbury, Massachcusetts.
• 1809 - Park Street Church, Boston, Massachcusetts.
• 1811 - Parish houses for Old South Church, Boston, Massachcusetts.
• 1816 - Burlington First Church (Unitarian), Burlington, Vermont
• 1818 - Antiquarian Hall, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachcusetts.