George Meacham

Who was George Meacham?

George Frederick Meacham was an architect in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in the 19th century. He is notable for designing Boston's Public Garden; the Massachusetts Bicycle Club; and churches, homes, and monuments in greater Boston and elsewhere in New England. He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, to Giles Meacham and Jane Meacham. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1853. After college he worked as a civil engineer for the Jersey City Water Works. By 1855 he returned to Boston and worked for an architecture firm there. He practiced as an architect from 1857 through 1891, and in that time produced numerous designs. People associated with the office of G.F. Meacham included Henry Martyn Francis, George Pyne, and Shepherd S. Woodcock. Meacham married Mary Warren in 1859; they had two children who died very young. Several years after the death of his first wife, he married Ellen Louisa Frost in 1881.