biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1716–75)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. Settling in Newport, RI (1740), he introduced Palladianism to New England in public buildings designed for Newport, Boston, and Cambridge (1748–61), and assembled the colonies' most important private architectural library. |
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