Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Institute of Architects | 1857 | ||
| Met Board of Trustees | 1870 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Architect | Gifford Pinchot House | Milford | |||||
| Architect | Hampton Institute | Hampton | |||||
| Architect | Biltmore Estate Office | Asheville | |||||
| Architect | Southern Railway Passenger Depot | Asheville | |||||
| Architect | All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish House | Asheville | |||||
| Architect | The Breakers | Newport, RI | |||||
| Architect | Stuyvesant Square Historic District | New York City | |||||
| Architect | Howland Library | Beacon, NY | |||||
| Architect | Hostelling International New York | New York City | |||||
| Architect | Archibald Rogers Estate | Hyde Park, NY | |||||
| Architect | Biltmore Estate | Asheville | |||||
| 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. | Education | Palais des Etudes, Ecole des Beaux-Arts | Paris | |||
| 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. | Home | Rue Jacob, Paris | Paris | |||
| 1852/00/00 | Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph of the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza. | Visitor | Great Sphinx | Giza | Leavitt Hunt's Grand Tour | ||
| 1852/00/00 | Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph of the Great Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza. | Visitor | Great Pyramid of Khufu | Giza | Leavitt Hunt's Grand Tour | ||
| 1852/00/00 | Leavitt Hunt makes a calotype photograph at Karnak and the Ramesseum in Thebes | Visitor | Temple of Karnak | Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis | 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. | Founding Member | |||||
| 1861/04/02 | Catharine Clinton Howland marries Richard Morris Hunt. | Groom | |||||
| 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 | Architect | Newport Art Museum | Newport, RI | |||
| 1881/00/00 | Richard Morris Hunt is hired to design the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. | Architect | Statue of Liberty | Statue of Liberty National Monument | |||
| 1885/00/00 | The Vanderbilt Mausoleum is built, 1885-1886, in a private section of Moravian Cemetery. Richard M Hunt's facade of the building was inspired by the 12th-century Romanesque Saint-Gilles-du-Gard Abbey near Arles, France. | Architect | Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum | New York City | |||
| 1888/00/00 | Marble House is built, 1888 to 1892 | Architect | Marble House | Newport, RI | |||
| 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. | Architect | Trinity Church | New York City | |||
| 1891/10/28 | Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated | Architect | Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument | Portland, ME | |||
| 1902/12/00 | Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall opens | Architect | The Met Fifth Avenue, NYC | New York City | Opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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