MORRILL, Marshall J. (1831-1910), a prominent architect in Brooklyn, N.Y. who is best known there for works in the neighbourhoods of Clinton Hill, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and Cobble Hill. His only work in Canada which has been identified is the Gothic Revival design for the American Presbyterian Church, Dorchester Boulevard West at Drummond Street, MONTREAL, QUE. 1865-66; demol. 1937 (inf. from the Erskine-American Church, Montreal). This church congregation later amalgamated with Erskine Presbyterian Church, and Morrill’s church was replaced by the Provincial Bus Terminal Building in 1938.
Born in Danville, Vermont in 1831, Morrill was recorded as an architect in Brooklyn from 1863 onward (D.S. Francis, Architects in Practice in New York City 1840-1900, 1979, 93). His best know works include the design for Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Oxford Street, BROOKLYN, N.Y., 1862 (F. Morrone & J. Iska, An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn, 2001, 171), and the impressive brownstone block for Chester B. Lawrence, Washington Park near DeKalb Avenue, BROOKLYN, N.Y., c. 1880 (A.I.A. Guide to New York City, 3rd edit., 1988, 625, item F6a). Morrill died in Brooklyn, N.Y. on 28 May 1910 (death notice New York Times, 29 May 1910, 7; New York Herald Tribune, 29 May 1910, 7)