John Welch (architect)

John Welch (1825-1894) was a Scottish-born American architect of Brooklyn, New York, who designed numerous churches.

[4] In 1849 he came to the United States, initially settling in Newark, New Jersey, where he opened his first office.

[7] Welch practiced architecture almost until his death, though he fell on hard times, financially, in the early 1890s and was obligated to work odd jobs for the last period of his life.

[8][4] The St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, designed and built by Welch during 1888–89, has been said to be "among the largest and finest of nineteenth-century ecclesiastical structures in New York City".

[9] The second Brooklyn Tabernacle, which Welch designed for Thomas De Witt Talmage, was one of the first auditorium plan churches in the United States, a method of church design popularized by others as the Akron Plan.