John Rudolph Niernsee

Early life

Career

Selected works

• Grace Episcopal Park Avenue & West Monument Street, 1850–52 designed with Nielsen
• Emmanuel Episcopal Cathedral & Eager St, 1857, designed with Nielsen
• The Green Mount Cemetery hilltop chapel, on Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, which he designed with Nielsen, is a Gothic Revival work.
• Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital at 500 Broadway, and the Johns Hopkins Colored Children Orphan Asylum.
• 1855–56: St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
• 1855: Saint Paul's Church, 102 North Union Street, Petersburg, Virginia, NRHP-listed.
• c. 1855, Villa Anneslie, 529 Dunkirk Road, Towson, Maryland, NRHP-listed.
• 1856-1865, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Camden Street Station, 301 West Camden Street, Baltimore, Maryland
• 1868: Aigburth Vale in Towson, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
• 1870: Churchville Presbyterian Church, Churchville, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in 1986.
• ca. 1870: Clifton Mansion for new owner Johns Hopkins, at Clifton Park, listed on the NRHP in 2007.
• The Greek Revival South Carolina State House, in Columbia, is another National Historic Landmark building which Niernsee designed, c. 1851, although full implementation was delayed. From 1888 to 1891, a time when much of the interior work was completed, it was in fact Niernsee's son, Frank McHenry Niernsee, who served as architect. NRHP-listed.<-- Grace Church, Baltimore Sun Paper March 12, 1852 pg1—unclear fragment -->
• The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops in Martinsburg, West Virginia, which he designed with engineer Albert Fink, were declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003.

• Church of the Most Holy Trinity, 720 Telfair Street, Augusta, Georgia, NRHP-listed
• St. Mary's Catholic Church located in the Edgefield Historic District, located along both sides of U.S. Route 25 through the town of Edgefield, South Carolina, NRHP-listed.
• Emmanuel Church, U.S. Route 301, Port Conway, Virginia., NRHP-listed/
• Evergreen House, 4545 North Charles Street, Baltimore,, NRHP-listed.
• Martin's Brandon Church, Virginia Highways 10 and 1201, Burrowsville., NRHP-listed.
• Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church and Asbury House, 2–10 East Mount Vernon Place/East Monument Street , Baltimore,, NRHP-listed.

  Personal life