Timothy G. O’Connell was an American architect

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 whose Boston

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-based practice specialized in ecclesiastical design.

O'Connell is reputed to have produced some 600 civic and religious buildings. Some of these structures such as the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine

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 would rival any medieval cathedral in form and scale. Unfortunately little is currently known of this architect and his work.