Charles Amos Cummings (June 26, 1833 – August 11, 1905)[1] was a nineteenth-century American architect and architectural historian who worked primarily in the Venetian Gothic style.

Returning to Boston, Cummings joined the office of architect Gridley Bryant, where he met Willard T. Sears.

Travel, and writing about Italian architecture informed his own work, and while a part of the larger Gothic Revival style, Cummings and his partner Sears were not rigorous academic revivalists.

A significant part of Cummings and Sears practice focused on ecclesiastical architecture, building churches throughout Massachusetts and northern New England.

The monument took the form of a 220' tower, built as an Italian campanile specifically modeled after the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy.

In 1901 he published his largest work A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance with over 500 illustrations.