Henry C. Dudley
{{short description|American architect}}
{{Infobox architect
|name = Henry Dudley
|image =
|image_size =
|caption =
|nationality =
|birth_date = 1813{{cite web|title=Architects and master builders|work=The New Jersey Churchscape|url=http://www.njchurchscape.com/architects.html#D|access-date=2008-03-04}}
|birth_place =
|death_place =
|practice =
|significant_buildings= Carlheim
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
|significant_projects =
|significant_design =
|awards =
}}
Henry C. Dudley (1813–1894), known also as Henry Dudley, was an English-born North American architect, known for his Gothic Revival churches. He was a founding member of the American Institute of Architects and designed a large number of churches, among them Saint Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse, New York, built in 1884,{{cite web|title=History of The American Institute of Architects|work=American Institute of Architects|url=http://www.aia.org/about_history|access-date=2008-03-04|archive-date=2008-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302111213/http://www.aia.org/about_history|url-status=dead}} and Trinity Church (Elmira, New York), completed in 1858.{{cite web|author=Robert T. Englert|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination:Trinity Church (Elmira, New York)|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102146|date=December 2006|access-date=2008-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225153/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102146|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}} and [http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102147 Accompanying 3 photos, from 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224749/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=102147 |date=2016-03-03 }} He was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 1857.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-05 |title=2022 FAIA Directory by AIA College of Fellows - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/aiacollegeoffellows/docs/2022_ebook_faia_directory/102 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}
Career
He partnered with architect Frank Wills, whom he knew from their days working together in Exeter, England for John Hayward,Architecture of the Old South: Greek Revival & Romantic
Volume 2 of Architecture of the Old South, Van Jones Martin. {{ISBN|0-88322-034-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-88322-034-4}} and worked on a number of churches with him. After Wills' sudden death in April 1857, Dudley is believed to have completed the Episcopal Church of the Nativity (Huntsville, Alabama), which is now a National Historic Landmark.{{citation|title=National Landmark Nomination: Episcopal Church of the Nativity|url={{NHLS url|id=74000420}} |format=pdf|date=July 21, 1989 |author1=R. Gamble |author2=Harvie Jones |author3=Frances Roberts |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=74000420|title=Accompanying 7 photos, exterior and interior, from 1989.|photos=y}} {{small|(1.59 MB)}} He also worked on his own and with Frederick Diaper.
Prominent works
Many of Dudley's works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
Buildings designed by Dudley include:
- Carlheim, located north of Leesburg, Virginia on U.S. 15, NRHP-listed
- Church of the Holy Trinity and Rectory, 381 Main St. and 144 Broad St., Middletown, Connecticut, NRHP-listed
- Episcopal Church of the Nativity, 212 Eustis St., Huntsville, Alabama, NRHP-listed
- Grace Church (Episcopal,) 14 Boltwood Avenue, Amherst, Massachusetts, contributing property in an NRHP-listed historic district
- Park-McCullough House, 1 Park St. North Bennington, Vermont, NRHP-listed{{Cite web|title=NPGallery Asset Detail|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/72000090|access-date=2021-04-24|website=npgallery.nps.gov}}
- St. George's Church, Flushing, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. James' Episcopal Church and Parish House, 2500 Jerome Ave. Bronx, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. John's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Alabama), 113 Madison Ave. Montgomery, Alabama, NRHP-listed
- St. John's Episcopal Church, in the Downtown Waterbury Historic District, Waterbury, Connecticut, contributing property in an NRHP-listed historic district
- St. John's Episcopal Church and Rectory, 15 St. John's St., Monticello, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Main St., Hoosick Falls, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. Paul's Cathedral and Parish House, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex, 169 Genesee St., Auburn, New York, NRHP-listed
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Niagara Falls, New York)[http://wakeupniagara.weebly.com/st-peterrsquos-episcopal-church.html#.UVjKOXmqYuc wakeupniagara weekly]
- Trinity Episcopal Church, 1900 Dauphin St., Mobile, Alabama, NRHP-listed
- Trinity Church (Elmira, New York), 304 N. Main St., Elmira, New York, NRHP-listed
- Trinity Church Lansingburgh, 585 Fourth Ave., Troy, New York, NRHP-listed
- Trinity Episcopal Church Complex, 335 Fourth Ave., Mount Vernon, New York, NRHP-listed
- Trinity Episcopal Church, contributing property in what is now the NRHP-listed Tariffville Historic District, in Tariffville, Connecticut.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=93000173}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Tariffville Historic District |date=August 30, 1982 |author=David F. Ransom |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=93000173|title=Accompanying 15 photos, exterior and interior, from 1992 (captions on pages 21-22 of text document)|photos=y}}{{rp|18}}
- one or more buildings in NRHP-listed West Main Street-West James Street Historic District, in Richfield Springs, New York
- Christ Episcopal Church, in Red Wing, Minnesota, named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to its 2008 distinctive destinations list.
Two churches believed to be the work of Wills and Dudley will likely have had increased involvement by Dudley, due to their completion after Will's death:
Gallery
File:PostcardEpiscopalChurchMiddletownConn1908.jpg|Postcard view of Middletown, Connecticut one
File:St Pauls Syracuse.jpg|Syracuse, New York one
File:Trinity Episcopal Mobile.JPG|Mobile, Alabama one
File:St Mark's Episcopal Church, Hoosick Falls, NY.jpg|Hoosick Falls, New York one
File:EdWe Christ Church Red Wing winter.jpg|Red Wing, Minnesota one
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- {{commons category-inline}}
- Henry C Dudley papers in process. [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html/ Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives], [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery.html/ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University].
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dudley, Henry}}
Category:Gothic Revival architects
Category:American ecclesiastical architects
Category:Architects of cathedrals
Category:Founder of American Institute of Architects
Category:19th-century American architects