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Maginnis & Walsh was an Boston-based architecture firm started by Charles Donagh Maginnis and Timothy Francis Walsh in 1905. It was known for its innovative design of churches in Boston in the first half of the 20th century.
Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan, an American architecture firm active from its founding in 1898 to its dissolution in 1905. The principals were Charles Donagh Maginnis (1867-1955), Timothy Francis Walsh (1868-1934), and Matthew Sullivan (1868-1948).
Charles Donagh Maginnis (January 7, 1867 – February 15, 1955) was an Irish-American architect. He emigrated to Boston at age 18, trained as an architect and went on to form the firm Maginnis & Walsh, designing ecclesiastical and campus buildings across America.
Both architects of Boston, Mass., active there from 1906 to 1934. The partnership consisted of Charles Donah McGinnis (1867-1955), and Timothy Francis Walsh (1868-1934). In the United States, their best known work is that of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. (begun 1920; completed 1959), the ...
This post-World War II modern Gothic Roman Catholic cathedral is both contemporary and indicative of local architectural conservatism. Designed by prolific Roman Catholic church architects Maginnis, Walsh and Kennedy of Boston, it has a Latin cross plan with a central entrance flanked by towers.
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. 1919, Washington, District of Columbia.
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Upon receiving Vatican approval, Dowling contracted the leading ecclesiastical architects of the day, Charles Maginnis and Timothy Walsh, who were from Boston. They were also responsible for designing the largest basilica in the country (in Washington, D.C.) and many buildings on the University of Notre Dame campus.
