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Richard Morris Hunt

1827 - 1895

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Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance façade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), and many Fifth Avenue mansions since destroyed. Hunt is also renowned for his Biltmore Estate, America's largest private house, near Asheville, North Carolina, and for his elaborate summer cottages in Newport, Rhode Island, which set a new standard of ostentation for the social elite and the newly minted millionaires of the Gilded Age. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Morris Hunt is the 489th most popular architect (down from 488th in 2019), the 10,850th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,291st in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Richard Morris Hunt ranks 489 out of 518. Before him are Calvert Vaux, Henry Hobson Richardson, Harry Vardon, Bjarke Ingels, Robert Smirke, and Peter Cook. After him are Gülsün Sağlamer, Joseph Pickford, Aston Webb, Benjamin Mountfort, Einari Teräsvirta, and Robert A. M. Stern.

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Among people born in 1827, Richard Morris Hunt ranks 69. Before him are Lev Lagorio, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Quintino Sella, Emma Schenson, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, and John Owen. After him are Mary Ward, Henry Warner Slocum, Milton Latham, and Augustus Pitt Rivers. Among people deceased in 1895, Richard Morris Hunt ranks 90. Before him are Peter Hardeman Burnett, Joseph Thomson, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Lady Charlotte Guest, Calvert Vaux, and Henry Seebohm. After him are Hugh McCulloch, Emily Faithfull, and James Gall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Morris Hunt ranks 10,852 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Dello Joio (1913), Zebulon Pike (1779), Fat Joe (1970), Marion Roper (1910), D. W. Moffett (1954), and John Jakes (1932). After him are Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882), Phyllis Thaxter (1919), Priscilla Dean (1896), Debbie Meyer (1952), Kate Bruce (1860), and Larry Storch (1923).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Richard Morris Hunt ranks 30. Before him are John Hejduk (1929), Julia Morgan (1872), Cass Gilbert (1859), Robert Moses (1888), Alfred Mosher Butts (1899), and Henry Hobson Richardson (1838). After him are Robert A. M. Stern (1939), John Russell Pope (1874), Maya Lin (1959), Andrew Jackson Downing (1815), Charles Bulfinch (1763), and Marion Mahony Griffin (1871).

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