Rufus Sargent

Rufus Sargent (1812-1886) was an American architect practicing in Newburyport, Massachusetts during the nineteenth century.

By 1848 he was calling himself an architect rather than carpenter, and would also advertise services as a civil engineer in later years.

Sargent was the most prominent architect practicing in Newburyport and Essex County during his lifetime, and after the Civil War also built extensively in New Hampshire.

While there he worked as an architect for the Henry B. Plant-affiliated Florida Southern Railway, and died there in 1886.

[2] His major buildings include the First Baptist Church of Methuen (1869, Gothic Revival), the bank for the Institution for Savings in Newburyport (1871, Italianate) and the City Hall of Peabody (1882–83, Second Empire).