Peter Banner was an English-born architect and builder[1] who designed the
Park Street Church in
Boston,
Massachusetts, and other buildings in New England in the early 19th century.
Life and career
Banner trained in
London, 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 Craft (born 1779) commissioned Banner to build his house in Roxbury. Around 1806 to 1808, Banner supervised the building of
India Wharf. In Boston he also designed the Park Street Church (1809), located next to the
Boston Common.
As well as being familiar with architecture through books, Banner was a skilled carpenter-joiner and mason, as well as a contractor, even worked on his own buildings.[2] At various times he worked with Solomon Willard and others.[3]
Selected designs
1799 – President's house,
Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.[4]
1800 – Berkeley Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.
1804 – Lyceum, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut.[5]
^Quinan, Jack. "Some Aspects of the Development of the Architectural Profession in Boston Between 1800 and 1830". Old Time New England. Volume: 68 Number: 249 Issue: Summer/Fall, 1977.
^Elmer Davenport and William Lamson Warren. "Peter Banner, His Building Speculations in New Haven (Part IV)." Old Time New England. Volume: 53 Number: 192 Issue: Spring, 1963.
^William Lamson Warren. "Peter Banner, A Builder for Yale College, Part III, The Lyceum." Old Time New England 49, no. 4 (Spring 1959)