Henry Hobson Richardson
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: By absorbing early medieval stylistic ideas, suffusing them with his own vision, and adapting them to the needs of his own time, Richardson earned his reputation as one of America’s greatest architects.
Early Life
Henry Hobson Richardson had a distinguished ancestor, one of the founders of modern chemistry, Joseph Priestley, whose granddaughter Caroline married Henry Dickenson Richardson, a partner in a Louisiana cotton business, and gave birth to the future architect in 1838. The boy attended school in New Orleans and was destined...
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