Ethan Anthony
American architect, author and academic (born 1950)
About Ethan Anthony
Born 1950. Ethan Anthony is an American.
Ethan Anthony (born October 14, 1950) is an American architect, author, and academic. As president of Cram and Ferguson Architects LLC, Anthony focuses on the design of the new Traditional American church architecture. During the last three decades, Anthony has designed numerous new traditional churches and interiors and has gained a national reputation for his work in liturgical architecture. His liturgical work can now be found in fifteen states.
Early life and education Ethan Anthony was born October 14, 1950, in Iowa City, Iowa. He spent his youth in Stow, Massachusetts, where he attended Stow public schools. He graduated from Xavier High School (Jesuit Brothers) in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1968 and attended the Boston Architectural College, School of Architecture from 1970 to 1977. While there he studied under Peter Blake, Arcangelo Cascieri, and Carl Koch before transferring to the University of Oregon at Eugene. There, Anthony completed his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1980, studying painting under Frank Okada and Brian Kaslov and architecture in the studio of Professor Gary Moye.
Career Following graduation, Anthony returned to Boston where he was employed for three years in the firm of Thomas Payette. While at Payette Associates, Mr. Anthony served as project architect under John L. Wilson, Vice President of Design. Projects included medical office buildings and hospital planning and design projects around the United States and a project for a hotel in Egypt. St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish built by Cram and Ferguson Architects A graduate of the School of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, Anthony served as a Project Architect under John L. Wilson. On leaving Payette Associates in 1983 Anthony founded Anthony Associates with an office on Congress Street where he practiced until 1990. During those seven years he designed a major renovation of and significant additions to the Springfield, Vermont Hospital and numerous residential and educational projects in New England.
He then merged his firm with Cram and Ferguson in 1990 as a partner. From 1991 to 1996 Anthony and his partner David Hulihan completed many projects for MCI Telecommunications Corporation throughout the Eastern half of the United States.
Recent works St. Edward's Chapel, The Casady School, Olklahoma city, OKSt. Timothy's Episcopal Church: Winston-Salem, NC 2017 to present Additions and Renovations Sisters of St Thomas Aquinas: Brooksville, FL 2016 to present Interior design for a new 200-seat Gothic chapel Messiah Lutheran Church: South Windsor, CT, 2014 to present Extension of church St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish: Ridgway, IL 2013 to present
Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery: Hollandale, WI, 2011 to Present New Monastery Chapel of St. Gabriel the Archangel: Norwood, MA, 2011 to present. Chapel Renovation St. John Neumann Catholic Church: Farragut, TN, 2005 to 2008 New Church St. Edward's Chapel, Casady School: Oklahoma City, OK, 2002-2011 Church Addition St. Andrew's Church: Denver Colorado, 2002-2009 Master Plan, Addition and Restoration Syon Abbey: Copper Hill, Virginia, 2002-2008 New Church and Monastery George J. Records Family Mausoleum, Oklahoma City, OK, 2002-2005 New Mausoleum Our Lady of Walsingham Roman Catholic Church: Houston, Texas, 2000-2003 New Church Phillips Chapel, Canterbury School: Greensboro, North Carolina, 1999-2003 New Church
Historic preservation
St. Paul's Episcopal Church: Malden, MA, 2000 to present Restoration of front elevation, slate and copper roofs; existing conditions survey and accessibility design Chapel of St. Gabriel the Archangel: Norwood, MA, 2011 to present. Chapel Renovation Winchester Unitarian Society: Winchester, MA, 2006-2007 Masterplan St. Edward's Chapel, Casady School: Oklahoma City, OK 2002-2010 Church Addition St. Andrew's Church: Denver, CO 2002-2009 Master Plan, Church Addition and Restoration Hunt Memorial Restoration: Nashua, NH 2002-2011 Window, masonry, roof restoration, design and coordination for HVAC installation, full renovation All Saints Episcopal Church: Peterborough, NH 1997-2001 Cloister addition to historic church Saint George's Chapel, Saint George's School: Middletown, RI 2000 Existing Conditions Survey Phillips Church, Phillips Exeter Academy: Exeter, NH 1997-2002 Preservation planning, Programming, Alterations & Renovations First Presbyterian Church Russell Sage Memorial: Far Rockaway, NY, 1995β98 All Saints Episcopal Church: Worcester, MA, 1995 Preservation Plan
Awards
2019 - AIA Central MA Design Awards; Emmanuel Baptist Church 2017 - AIA Central MA Design Awards; Valley of Our Lady Monastery, WI; St Kateri Tekakwitha, IL; St Andrew's, CO 2015 β AIA Central MA Design Awards; St Edward's Chapel Casady School, Oklahoma City OK 2007 - Macael Award to the Architect; Spain 1993 - IFRAA Honor Award for Unbuilt Architecture "Cathedral in the Woods" One of 13 projects selected from 120 International entries.
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