Charles Bulfinch
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American History 1816-1855, American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: One of the first American architects to have used drawings extensively for the construction of buildings, Bulfinch exercised a wide influence on the architecture of the early national period of American history, especially in his native New England.
Early Life
The son of Thomas and Susan Apthorp Bulfinch, well-to-do and socially prominent Bostonians, Charles Bulfinch was born at the family home on Bowdoin Street on August 8, 1763. One of the first American architects to complete a college education, he was graduated from Harvard in...
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