biography
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| lived:
| (1802–78)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, S England, UK. Apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, he emigrated in 1829 and became an architect in Boston (1934–8). His first and best-known major building was Trinity Church, New York City (1839–46), which definitively linked the Protestant Episcopal Church with the Gothic Revival style. He designed many residences and public buildings, and his later ecclesiastical architecture incorporated Romanesque and Italianate forms. He was a founder and first president (1857–76) of the American Institute of Architects. |
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