Elias Carter

Elias Carter (1781-1864) was an American architect whose first church design, at Brimfield, Massachusetts, was completed in 1805.

[1] He was born in 1781 to Timothy and Sarah (Walker) Carter in Ward, a village of Auburn, Massachusetts.

His father, a builder, died when he was three, and the family moved to Hardwick when his mother remarried, to a farmer there.

He followed in his father's profession, working in the American South for a time before returning to central Massachusetts.

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