Congdon, Henry Martyn

Date of Birth: 1834
Date of Death: 1922

New York, NY

Biography: Born in Brooklyn and educated at Columbia, class of 1854, Congdon was briefly associated with J. Cleveland Cady, c. 1871, and later with John W. Priest, but for the greater part of his long career carried on an independent practice specializing in churches since he was one of the founders of American Ecclesiological Society, it is not surprising that his skillful and accomplished church designs are in the Gothic Revival mode favored by the Ecclesiologists.
[M; W; New York Sketchbook of Architecture, 1 (Jul 1874) : 7, pl. 26.; Phoebe B. Stanton, The Gothic Revival & American Church Architecture (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968) pp. 181n, 286n, 301, 301n.]

Sources: David F. Ransom: "Biographical Dictionary of Hartford Architects" (CT. Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 54, nos.1-2, Winter/Spring 1989), p. 33-34