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Samuel J. F. Thayer (1842–1893) was an American architect notable for designing buildings such as the Providence City Hall and the Cathedral of St. George as well as the city halls of Brookline Stoughton and Methuen Massachusetts.He lived for a time in South Boston Massachusetts and enlisted in the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers during the Civil War serving from October 1862 to July 1863.He shot himself in a fit of despondency dying on February 28 1893.