Old South Church

Old South Church in Boston (also called the New Old South Church) was built between 1872-1875, on newly filled land in the Back Bay on Copley Square. The church building was designed by the Boston architectural firm of Cummings and Sears in the Venetian Gothic style. The style follows the precepts of the British cultural theorist and architectural critic John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) as outlined in his treatise The Stones of Venice. Old South Church in Boston remains one of the most significant examples of Ruskin's influence on American architecture. Construction began in 1872 under Boston architect Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, who also designed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.