Ethan Anthony is an American architect, author, and academic. As president of Cram and Ferguson Architects LLC, Anthony focuses on the design of the new Traditional American church architecture. During the last three decades, Anthony has designed numerous new traditional churches and interiors and has gained a national reputation for his work in liturgical architecture. His liturgical work can now be found in fifteen states.[1]
Following graduation, Anthony returned to Boston where he was employed for three years in the firm of Thomas Payette. While at Payette Associates, Mr. Anthony served as project architect under John L. Wilson, Vice President of Design. Projects included medical office buildings and hospital planning and design projects around the United States and a project for a hotel in Egypt.
A graduate of the School of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon, Anthony served as a Project Architect under John L. Wilson. On leaving Payette Associates in 1983 Anthony founded Anthony Associates with an office on Congress Street where he practiced until 1990. During those seven years he designed a major renovation of and significant additions to the Springfield, Vermont Hospital and numerous residential and educational projects in New England.
He then merged his firm with Cram and Ferguson in 1990 as a partner. From 1991 to 1996 Anthony and his partner David Hulihan completed many projects for MCI Telecommunications Corporation throughout the Eastern half of the United States.[2] Other clients included New England Telephone, Allmerica Insurance and National Life Insurance Company among others. In 1997 David Hulihan retired and the firm name was changed to HDB/Cram and Ferguson to reflect a return to the origins and traditions of the practice.
Beginning in 1997, Anthony has led the practice as President and Principal of Cram & Ferguson Architects, LLC, Under his leadership the firm has continued its 125 year focus on planning and design of new traditionally-inspired religious and academic buildings and campus planning in addition to Preservation of significant historic buildings. Anthony is the President of the American Institute of Architects, Central Massachusetts Chapter and the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners based in London,[2] has won numerous awards for design excellence, and in addition to authoring articles in Traditional Building and Faith and Form magazines, published "The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and his Firm" (WW Norton, New York, 2007).[3]
Ethan Anthony and Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley at the dedication of Our Lady of Good Voyage
Anthony brought his early Jesuit introduction to religion to Cram and Ferguson soon augmented by research journeys to great European monuments. His background in medieval history and readings in symbolism and architecture have informed his notable works include the 2019 Church for the St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish at the University of Virginia, 2017 Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage, Boston, and 2016 Church for the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish, Ridgway, Illinois, among many others. In depth research in the predecessor's firm work led to his recent book "The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office", published in 2007.[1]
Anthony has designed numerous new traditional churches and interiors and has gained a national reputation for his work in liturgical architecture. His liturgical work can now be found in fifteen states. Since 1990, Mr. Anthony has concentrated on planning, design and restoration of historically significant buildings, design of new churches and additions to historic buildings.
From 1991 to 1996 Anthony and his partner David Hulihan completed many projects for MCI Telecommunications Corporation throughout the Eastern United States. Other projects were completed for New England Telephone, Allmerica Insurance, National Life Insurance Company among others.
In 1997 David Hulihan left the practice and Anthony continued the firm changing the name to HDB/ Cram and Ferguson to reflect the origins and traditions that he was reasserting in the practice. Church and academic work began to be more important in the workload and by 2000 90% of the workload was church or academic related.
As part of this work Anthony has traveled extensively over the last twenty years in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain collecting photographs and detail information from source Gothic and Romanesque churches and monasteries as inspiration for work he is designing, as well as resulting in his blog Ruins and Rosemary.
Also since 1990 Anthony has also worked to organize the firm archives composed of some 10,000 photographs and 100,000 drawings. He published The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office, (WW Norton, 2007)[3]
