John Stevens (architect)

John Stevens (1824-1881) was an American architect who practiced in Boston, Massachusetts.

[2] After several years primarily designing schools and private residences, he began receiving commissions for churches by the end of the 1850s.

He built these churches, generally in the Romanesque Revival style, in Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island.

[4] He remained in Massachusetts until 1879, when he established a partnership with his son, J. Walter Stevens, and moved west to St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 1878, an anonymous writer going by "Verax" wrote in regard to his St. John church: "and as the 'outline and general features are after the Byzantine period' we may expect something similar to Mr. Stevens's previous works, which may be seen in almost every city from Calais to Lynn.