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Born October 31, 1827 • Brattleboro • Vermont
Died July 31, 1895 (aged 67) • Newport • Rhode Island
Movement / Style Renaissance revival • Second Empire style

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Hunt, Richard Morris
Administration building, World's Columbian Exposition
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The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island
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Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., designed by Henry Bacon, 1911.
Henry Bacon
American architect
chapel at Turku, Finland
Erik Bryggman
Finnish architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
McKim, Charles Follen
Charles Follen McKim
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Harrison, Peter: Redwood Library
Peter Harrison
British architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Juan O'Gorman: Retablo de la independencia
Juan O’Gorman
Mexican architect and muralist
Church of S. Marcello, Rome, by Carlo Fontana, c. 1683
Carlo Fontana
Italian architect
Affonso Reidy
Brazilian architect
Asplund, Gunnar: Göteborg Law Courts extension
Gunnar Asplund
Swedish architect
Klenze, Leo von: Glyptothek
Leo von Klenze
German architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., by Louis I. Kahn, 1959–65
Louis Kahn
American architect
Marcel Breuer
Hungarian architect

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