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Heins & LaFarge was a New York City –based architectural firm founded by Philadelphia -born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), the eldest son of the artist John La Farge.
Oct 10, 2004 · George L. Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge met as students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology around 1880 and then worked in the architectural office of Cass Gilbert. In...
The cathedral’s trustees selected the eclectic and audaciously cyclopean design of George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge. Construction of the cathedral’s eastern half began in 1893 and hit one setback after another. The excavation hit soft stone and springs instead of bedrock.
6 days ago · George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LeFarge, most well known for their work on the New York City subway system, won the Cathedral’s design competition in 1888. Their design...
In 1866 LaFarge formed a partnership with George Lewis Heins and worked with him to design cathedrals, buildings at the Bronx Zoo, as well as a showpiece station at City Hall and other entrances for the NY subway system. LaFarge worked with Heins until Heins’ death in 1907.
Oct 31, 2017 · In 1913, he accepted a controversial commission from the trustees of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to take over as cathedral architect after the death in 1907 of George Lewis Heins, his predecessor, and the ousting of Heins’s partner, Christopher Grant La Farge, four years later.
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Following the deaths of Potter as well as of George Lewis Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge, the architect Ralph Adams Cram of the firm Cram & Ferguson redesigned the unfinished church employing a French Gothic vocabulary that integrated English Gothic elements.
