Architecture Firms Based in Massachusetts - Henry Hobson Richardson, ARC-Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Maginnis & Walsh (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Henry Hobson Richardson, ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., Maginnis & Walsh, Taylor & Burns Architects, Cambridge Seven Associates, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc, Peabody and Stearns, Machado and Silvetti Associates, The Architects' Collaborative, Boston Society of Architects, Gridley James Fox Bryant, Shepley Bulfinch, TRO Jung Brannen, Charles Brigham, Hartwell and Richardson, Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos & Associates, Franz Joseph Untersee, William B. Colleary, Matthew Sullivan, Richard J. Shaw, Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., Perry Dean Rogers Architects, Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, Densmore and LeClear, HDB/Cram and Ferguson, Rotch & Tilden. Excerpt: Henry Hobson Richardson (September 29, 1838 - April 27, 1886) was a prominent American architect of the 19th century. His work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Albany, and Chicago, among other cities. The style he popularized is named for him: Richardsonian Romanesque. Richardson was born at Priestly Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana and spent part of his childhood in New Orleans, where his family resided on Julia Row in a red brick house designed by the architect Alexander T. Wood. He was the great-grandson of inventor and philosopher Joseph Priestley, who is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen. Richardson went on to study at Harvard College. Initially he was interested in civil engineering, but eventually shifted to architecture, which led him to go to Paris in 1860 to attend the famed Ecole des Beaux Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules Andre. He didn't finish his training there, as family backing failed during the U.S. Civil War. Nonetheless, he was only the second US citizen to attend the Ecole- Richard Morris Hunt was the first. The school was to play an increasingly impor...