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[[Image:Quincy_Market_When_Built.jpg|thumb|right|[[Quincy Market]] in [[1830]], Boston, MA]]
In [[1824]], however, he began a twenty year association working for the [[Boston Navy Yard]]. He would end his career as chief engineer at the [[Portsmouth Naval Shipyard]]. With the federal government as patron, Parris produced plans for numerous utilitarian structures, from storehouses to ropewalks, and was superintendent of construction at one of the nation's first [[drydock]]s, located at the [[Charlestown, MA]] base. Today, he is fondly remembered for his stalwart stone [[lighthouses]], commissioned by the [[U.S. Treasury Department]]. They are
Parris balanced the delicacy of his "superb draftsmanship," as it was called, with the coarseness of his building material of choice: [[granite]]. His most famous building, [[Quincy Market]], is made of it.
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