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Date Posted: 01:44:00 02/10/11 Thu
Author: BC (the Arizona Biltmore)
Subject: F.L.W.
In reply to: BC 's message, "Just sayin' "Hi" ..." on 15:34:31 02/08/11 Tue


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[> Biltmore Castle - Asheville, NC -- BC, 01:55:27 02/10/11 Thu

Richard Morris Hunt
- architect of the Biltmore located in Asheville, NC
- 1828-95, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt.,
- studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the École des Beaux-Arts ...
- a leading practitioner of 19th-century eclecticism. Hunt worked under T. U. Walter on the extensions of the Capitol at Washington, D.C.
- in New York City he founded the first American studio for training young architects ...
- he was one of the organizers of the American Institute of Architects, of which he became president in 1888.

Most of his work was closely imitative of historic styles. It included ...
- the Lenox Library, New York City (later torn down)
- the first building for the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, Mass.
- the U.S. naval observatory at Washington, D.C.
- the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
- numerous magnificent residences, such as those of the Vanderbilts in New York City and Newport, R.I
- and the Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C.
- his Tribune Building in New York was one of the first elevator buildings.








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