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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