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4 unusual facts about Richard Morris Hunt


Charles Follen McKim

McKim, with the aid of Richard Morris Hunt, was instrumental in the formation of the American School of Architecture in Rome in 1894, which has become the American Academy in Rome, and designed the main campus buildings with his firm McKim, Mead, and White.

Hector Lefuel

Aiding Lefuel was the young American architect Richard Morris Hunt, who had studied under Lefuel at the École des Beaux-Arts.

Joseph Northrup

That building, built in 1896, is a "knowledgeable variant of the Chateauesque mansions of Richard Morris Hunt".

Peabody and Stearns

The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, 1878, burned in 1892 and replaced with another mansion with the same name by Richard Morris Hunt)


Charles G. Dawes House

The style was introduced to the United States in 1882 by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, when he built a palace in the style at 660 Fifth Avenue in New York for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt (demolished, 1926).

IIT Institute of Design

The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its first headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt, designed for department store magnate Marshall Field.

Oliver Belmont

His mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is an exact replica of the Chapel of St. Hubert at Château d'Amboise in France.


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