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Elias Carter (1781-1864) was an American architect whose first church design at Brimfield was completed in 1805. He was born in 1781 to Timothy and Sarah (Walker) Carter in Ward a village of Auburn Massachusetts. His father a builder died when he was three and the family moved to Hardwick when his mother remarried to a farmer there. He followed in his father’s profession working in the American South for a time before returning to central Massachusetts.
