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5 unusual facts about Henry Hobson Richardson


Architects and Engineers Building

The names of prominent architects such as Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Sir Christopher Wren, Charles Follen McKim, and Henry Hobson Richardson are painted in gold within the arches between each pair of third-floor windows.

Fort Street Union Depot

It was built in the Romanesque architectural style, to the designs of James Stewart, an architect in the style of Henry Hobson Richardson.

Hermann V. von Holst

In the period 1904-1906, von Holst created summer countryside estate architecture in the White Mountains of New Hampshire for socially prominent and wealthy clients, including Pittsburgh glassmaking millionaire George A. Macbeth and International Harvester partner John Glessner, whose Chicago Glessner House was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

Michael Dawida

During their administration Mike Dawida and Bob Cranmer oversaw the rehabilitation and restoration of the famed Henry Hobson Richardson Allegheny County Jail designed in the late 1800s.

Ross House Association

It is an example of a transitional and unusual design that takes from the American Romanesque style developed by Henry Hobson Richardson in America.


Hampden County Courthouse

Hampden County Courthouse is a historic courthouse on Elm Street in Springfield, Massachusetts designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

Isaac H. Lionberger House

The Isaac H. Lionberger House at 3630 Grandel Square in Midtown St. Louis, Missouri is the last private residence designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

James F. O'Gorman

O'Gorman is particularly known for his research and writing on the nineteenth-century American architects Henry Hobson Richardson, Frank Furness, and Hammatt Billings.

New York Court of Appeals Building

Henry Hobson Richardson designed the courtroom, originally located in the nearby state capitol in the 1880s and described by a visiting Lord Coleridge as "the finest ... in the world".

Richardson Olmsted Complex

The large Medina red sandstone and brick hospital buildings were designed in 1870 in the Kirkbride Plan by architect Henry Hobson Richardson with grounds by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.


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