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Gifford Pinchot House |
Milford |
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Hampton Institute |
Hampton |
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Biltmore Estate Office |
Asheville |
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Southern Railway Passenger Depot |
Asheville |
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All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish House |
Asheville |
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The Breakers |
Newport, RI |
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Stuyvesant Square Historic District |
New York City |
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Howland Library |
Beacon, NY |
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Hostelling International New York |
New York City |
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Archibald Rogers Estate |
Hyde Park, NY |
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Biltmore Estate |
Asheville |
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| 1846/00/00 |
Richard Morris Hunt enters the Paris atelier of Hector Lefuel. The aspiring architect will become the first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. |
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Palais des Etudes, Ecole des Beaux-Arts |
Paris |
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| 1851/00/00 |
William Hunt and his brother Richard share an apartment at 1 rue Jacob, close by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where William studies painting under Thomas Couture. |
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Rue Jacob, Paris |
Paris |
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| 1852/00/00 |
Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph of the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza. |
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Great Sphinx |
Giza |
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Leavitt Hunt's Grand Tour |
| 1852/00/00 |
Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph of the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza. |
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Great Pyramid of Khufu |
Giza |
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Leavitt Hunt's Grand Tour |
| 1852/00/00 |
Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph at Karnak and the Ramesseum in Thebes |
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Temple of Karnak |
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis |
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Leavitt Hunt's Grand Tour |
| 1857/02/23 |
Thirteen architects meet in Richard Upjohn's office to establish what will become the American Institute of Architects. |
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| 1861/04/02 |
Catharine Clinton Howland marries Richard Morris Hunt. |
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| 1861/07/00 |
While Richard M Hunt and his wife Catharine stay with John Griswold and his wife Jane in Paris for two weeks, it is agreed that Hunt will design a house for the Griswolds in Newport. Richard and Catharine Hunt have been friends with John and Jane Griswold |
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Newport Art Museum |
Newport, RI |
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| 1881/00/00 |
Richard Morris Hunt is hired to design the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. |
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Statue of Liberty |
Statue of Liberty National Monument |
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| 1885/00/00 |
Designed by Richard M Hunt as a replica of a Romanesque church in Arles, France, the Vanderbilt Mausoleum is built, 18851886, in a private section at Moravian Cemetery. |
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Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island |
New York City |
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| 1888/00/00 |
Marble House is built, 1888 to 1892 |
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Marble House |
Newport, RI |
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| 1890/00/00 |
Bas reliefs Bronze doors, conceived by Richard Morris Hunt, are funded by William W Astor in memory of John Jacob Astor III. The 10 ft x 8.5 ft portal is executed by J Woodley Gosling at the Henry Bonnard Bronze Company. |
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Trinity Church |
New York City |
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| 1891/10/28 |
Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated |
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Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument |
Portland, ME |
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| 1902/12/00 |
Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall opens |
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The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC |
New York City |
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Opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |