Robert P. Walsh (1893-1969) was a draftsman and architect for the Maginnis & Walsh architectural firm. He married Alice Mary Maginnis (1909-1992), daughter of Charles D. Maginnis, around 1965.

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Boston City Directory, 1964. Accessed via Ancestry.com, City Directories, 1822-1995.

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Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File. Accessed via Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.

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Charles Donagh Maginnis was born in what was known at the time as Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland on January 7, 1867. He attended intermediate school in Londonderry and studied at Cusack’s Academy of Art in Dublin. In 1885, Maginnis immigrated to America with his widowed mother, brothers, and sisters, and eventually settled in Boston. In 1891, Maginnis began work as a designer in the office of Edmund M. Wheelwright, the City Architect of Boston. In 1898, Maginnis went into partnership with Timothy F. Walsh and Matthew Sullivan to form Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan. In 1906, Sullivan withdrew and the firm was renamed Maginnis & Walsh.

Maginnis served as the first president of the Liturgical Arts Society in 1932 and President of the American Institute of Architects from 1936 to 1937. He was also named as an honorary member of many other architectural societies, including the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Architectural Association of Chile, and the Royal Institute of Canadian Architects. Several universities, including Harvard, Boston College, Holy Cross, and Tufts, awarded Maginnis honorary degrees.

The serial Pen Drawing was authored and illustrated by Maginnis and was published in seven editions beginning in 1899. Maginnis also wrote articles and essays for other publications. His subjects ranged from Catholic architecture to an architect’s view on war memorials. Maginnis was wary of the “modern” philosophy of art and architecture; he called for a reasonable and fresh approach to ecclesiastical design. Maginnis married Amy Brooks in 1908 and raised four children: Alice, Charles, John, and Elizabeth. He died on February 15, 1955, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 9, 1967.

“Charles Donagh Maginnis-1867-1955,” Journal of the American Institute of Architects, May 1955.

“A Tribute to Charles Donagh Maginnis 1867-1955,” Liturgical Arts Quarterly, August 1955.

Timothy F. Walsh was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 8, 1868. He graduated from the Boston English High School in 1885. Walsh entered the office of Peabody & Stearns as an architectural student and, after promotion to the post of draftsman, remained in the employ of the firm for a decade. In 1894, he left for a year of advanced study in Paris ateliers, after which he spent a year abroad in travel before returning to the U.S. In 1898, Walsh went into partnership with Charles D. Maginnis and Matthew Sullivan to form Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan. In 1906, Sullivan withdrew and the firm was renamed Maginnis & Walsh.

Walsh was a member of the Boston Society of Architects and President of the Boston Board of Appeals.

In 1899, Walsh married Marian Adams Wright (1865-1960), and together they had four children: Kathleen, Margaret, James, and Edith. Walsh died on July 7, 1934, at the age of 66, in North Scituate, Massachusetts.

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Holden, Wheaton A. "The Peabody Touch: Peabody and Stearns of Boston, 1870-1917." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 32, no. 2 (1973): 114-31. doi:10.2307/988826.

"Timothy Walsh." Prabook.com. Accessed April 16, 2019. https://prabook.com/web/timothy.walsh/1717809.

In 1898, Charles D. Maginnis and Timothy F. Walsh went into partnership with Matthew Sullivan to form Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan. In 1906, Sullivan withdrew and the firm was renamed Maginnis & Walsh. In 1909, Maginnis & Walsh won the competition to build the new campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The collegiate Gothic design was deemed "the most beautiful campus in America" by The American Architect magazine and established the firm's reputation in collegiate and ecclesiastical architecture. Maginnis & Walsh went on to design buildings at over twenty-five colleges and universities around the country, including the main buildings at Emmanuel College, Boston; the chapel at Trinity College, Washington, DC; and the law school at the University of Notre Dame. Maginnis & Walsh later added an additional partner, Eugene Kennedy. In 1969, Kennedy selected his brother as chief partner and renamed the firm Kennedy and Kennedy Architects.

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"Eugene F. Kennedy, prominent church architect, dead at 82." AP News. November 9, 1986. Accessed August 22, 2019. https://www.apnews.com/7cf416cb3998e557c6ab0e7813d001f0

"Maginnis & Walsh." Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada. Accessed April 16, 2019. http:// www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/2135.