Amaryllis, by Charles P. Scott

Newport Daily News, August 7, 1890

Charles Phillips Scott was born in Newport, Rhode Island on March 5, 1868. He studied organ with J. Warren Andrews, the organist at Trinity Church in Newport. While in Newport, he would serve as the organist at the Central Baptist Church on Clarke Street in the 1880s before resigning his position to study in Europe in 1887. He moved to Boston to study music in 1888, returning to Newport to serve as the organist at Trinity Church. In the fall of 1890, he resigned his position to study composition in Leipzig, Germany. Upon his return he spent 25 years as the organist at the Meeting House Hill Church, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At the same time, he served as the organist at the Temple Ohabei Shalom, on Union Park Street, in the South End.

Scott died on November 10, 1926, at Brigham Hospital, in Boston, due to complications from a surgery.

He was married to Maud Laud, a Newport resident, and they maintained a summer home in Newport, in the early 20th century. That house was Ladd Villa on Bath Road.

1897 photo and 1907 map excerpt courtesy of “Newport, Lost & Found” Facebook group

Scott composed Amaryllis, for organ in 1898. The musical score is part of the A.P. Schmidt Company Musical Archives., at the Library of Congress.

The photos of the churches in this video come from the Providence Public Library Digital Archives.
The churches in order of appearance:
Second Baptist Church, 1906
Shiloh Baptist Church, 1901
Trinity Church, 1901
Zion Episcopal Church, undated
All Saints Chapel, 1903
St. John the Evangelist Church, 1934
St. Paul’s Methodist Church, 1911
Newport Congregational Church, 1885
North Baptist Church, 1926
St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church, undated
Naval Station Chapel, 1970