Henry Hobson Richardson

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American architect architect human

Henry Hobson Richardson was a pioneering 19th-century American architect renowned for developing the Richardsonian Romanesque style and designing landmark buildings across the United States.

Aliases (1)

H. H. Richardson ×5

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American architect → architect → human →
causeOfDeath	Bright's disease → kidney disease →
countryOfCitizenship	Confederate States of America → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1838-09-29 →
dateOfDeath	1886-04-27 →
educatedAt	Harvard University → École des Beaux-Arts →
familyName	Richardson →
fieldOfWork	architecture →
fullName	Henry Hobson Richardson →
givenName	Henry →
influenced	Chicago school of architecture → Frank Lloyd Wright → Louis Sullivan →
influencedBy	French medieval architecture → Romanesque architecture → École des Beaux-Arts tradition →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
movement	Richardsonian Romanesque →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableAchievement	considered one of the three great American architects of the 19th century → helped define a distinct American architectural style in the late 19th century →
notableFor	development of Richardsonian Romanesque style →
notableWork	Allegheny County Courthouse → Allegheny County Jail → Ames Free Library → Ames Gate Lodge → Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane → Glessner House → John Hay Library (Hay / Nichols houses in Providence) → Marshall Field Wholesale Store → New York State Capitol (contributions) → Sever Hall, Harvard University → Thomas Crane Public Library → Trinity Church, Boston →
occupation	architect →
placeOfBirth	Priestley Plantation → St. James Parish, Louisiana →
placeOfDeath	Brookline, Massachusetts →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Julia Gorham Hayden →
style	Richardsonian Romanesque → Romanesque Revival →
workLocation	Boston, Massachusetts → Brookline, Massachusetts → Buffalo, New York → Chicago, Illinois → Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
New York State Capitol → Sever Hall → Trinity Church in the City of Boston → Trinity Church in the City of Boston ("H. H. Richardson") →	architect
Auditorium Building ("H. H. Richardson") → Charles Follen McKim → Charles Hercules Rutan ("H. H. Richardson") → George Foster Shepley ("H. H. Richardson") →	influencedBy
Charles Allerton Coolidge → Charles Hercules Rutan ("H. H. Richardson") →	employer
Frederick Law Olmsted →	coDesignerWith
Henry Hobson Richardson →	fullName
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc →	influenced
Woburn, Massachusetts →	libraryArchitect
Richardsonian Romanesque →	namedAfter
Sever Hall →	notableWorkOf
Richardsonian Romanesque →	popularizedBy
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge →	predecessor