Bulfinch. Like his famous employer, Parris produced refined residences, churches and commercial buildings. When in 1817 Bulfinch was called to Washington to work on the U.S. Capitol Building, Parris helped complete the Bulfinch Building home of the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital. With Bulfinch's departure, Parris soon became the city's leading architect, and a proponent of what would be called "Boston Granite Style," with austere, monolithic stonework. Around 1818-1823 he kept an office on Court Street. He belonged to the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. In 1824, however, he began a twenty-year association working for the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown. He would end his career as chief engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. With the federal government as patron, Parris produced plans for numerous utilitarian structures, from storehouses to ropewalks, and was superintendent of construction at one of the nation's first drydocks, located at the Charlestown base. Today, he is fondly remembered for his stalwart stone lighthouses, commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. They are often of a tapered form termed "windswept." Parris balanced the delicacy of his "superb draftsmanship," as it was called, with the coarseness of his building material of choice: granite. His most famous building, Quincy Market, is made of it. Parris died in Pembroke, where he is interred in the Briggs Burying Ground. Designs 1801 - Joseph Holt Ingraham House, Portland, Maine 1803-1804 - Maine Fire & Marine Insurance Company Building, Portland, Maine 1804 - James Deering House, Portland, Maine 1805 - Commodore Edward Preble House, Portland, Maine 1805 - Hunnewell-Shepley House, Portland, Maine 1806-1807 - Portland Bank, Portland, Maine 1807 - St. John's Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1809-1810 - Moses Payson House, Bath, New Hampshire 1812 - Wickham House, Richmond, Virginia 1813 - Executive Mansion, Richmond, Virginia 1816 - Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts 1818 - 39 and 40 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts 1819 - Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston, Massachusetts 1819 - David Sears House (now the Somerset Club), Boston, Massachusetts 1819 - Appleton-Parker House, or Nathan Appleton Residence, Boston, Massachusetts 1822 - St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Windsor, Vermont 1824 - Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts 1824-1826 - Quincy Market, Boston, Massachusetts 1828 - United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts 1831 - Barnstable County Courthouse, Barnstable, Massachusetts 1834 - St. Joseph's Church, Boston, Massachusetts 1834 - Ropewalk, Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts 1836 - Chelsea Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts 1837 -