Article: An Internationally Acclaimed Architect: H. H. Richardson

An Internationally Acclaimed Architect: H. H. Richardson

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First Among His Peers. In 1885 the American Architect and Building News asked seventy-five American architects to identify the ten buildings they most admired in the United States. The poll yielded one clear favorite: Trinity Church, in Boston s Copley Square. Designed by the Louisiana-born and Paris-trained H. H. Richardson (1838-1886), Trinity received 84 percent of the first-place votes. Of the top ten vote getters, four other structures were Richardson creations: the city hall and the state capitol in Albany, New York, the Sever Hall classroom building at Harvard University, and the town hall in North Easton, ...

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