Thomas Waldron Sumner

Who was Thomas Waldron Sumner?

Thomas Waldron Sumner was an architect and government representative in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 19th century. He designed East India Marine Hall and the Independent Congregational Church in Salem; and the South Congregational Society church in Boston. He was also involved with the Exchange Coffee House, Boston.

In Boston he lived on Cambridge Street and Chamber Street, and later moved to Brookline. He belonged to the Boston Associated Housewrights Society and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanick Association. Sumner married Elizabeth Hubbard; children included Caroline Sumner and Thomas Hubbard Sumner. His parents were engineer James Sumner and Alice Waldron. The artist John Christian Rauschner created portraits of Sumner and his wife.