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May 22, 2008 · Richard Morris Hunt, Revisited. View All 13 Photos Play slideshow. What is known today as Aaron Burr Hall, on the edge of Princeton University's New Jersey campus, has always been an anomaly. When it was designed in the late 1800s by Richard Morris Hunt, it was too simple in its design to fit seamlessly into the architect's Vanderbilt-rich ...
Dec 16, 2020 · Richard Morris Hunt, one of the most noteworthy architects of the last half of the 19th Century, had a strong and long affiliation with Newport. He met his wife, the heiress Catherine Howland, in Newport in 1860. He had an artist’s studio here as did his famous sculptor elder brother, William Morris Hunt.
May 21, 2018 · The American architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) was a major contributor to the eclectic style of the 19th century. Richard Morris Hunt was born in Brattleboro, Vt. His father was a lawyer and member of Congress, his mother a painter. He graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1843. He was sent to a military school in Geneva but soon ...
A collection with a large amount of material in various formats such as drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, and journals (selections digitized) by Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) was transferred from the American Institute of Architects and American Architectural Foundation in 2010.
In the 1890s, Richard Morris Hunt was considered by fellow professionals and patrons alike to be the dean of American architects. In a career stretching over three decades, he introduced a number of influential styles, culminating in his elaborately palatial residential designs of the late 1880s and 1890s, upon which his national reputation is based.
Biltmore is the largest privately owned residence in the United States, the masterpiece of famed American architect Richard Morris Hunt, and possibly the most prominent icon of the Gilded Age. Built for George Washington Vanderbilt (1862–1914), the grandson of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, the estate’s name derives ...
Jan 25, 2016 · Not surprisingly, one of the men most associated with Gilded Age mansions and design, Richard Morris Hunt, made that observation about the role of an architect. And while that quote may be interpreted as deference to the whims of wealthy clients, Hunt, and his very eclectic body of work, was about much, much more than ostentatious displays of ...
