biography
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| (1839–1912)
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| Architect, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He trained with Richard Morris Hunt, then fought in the Union cavalry in the Civil War. Returning to Philadelphia, he practised first with John Fraser and George W Hewitt, and after 1881 with Allen Evans. He was an outstanding exponent of the picturesque eclectic style, which blended colours, textures, and ornamental details from foreign styles of every period. Among his nearly 400 public and institutional buildings are the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1871–6) and the building regarded as his masterpiece, the Library (now the Furness Building), University of Pennsylvania (1888–91). He was reduced to obscurity in his later years, a victim of fashionable Neoclassicism, but his reputation revived in the 1960s, when post-Modernists found inspiration in the decorative richness of his style. |
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