Gridley James Fox Bryant

Gridley James Fox Bryant , often referred to as G.J.F. Bryant, was a Boston architect, builder, and industrial engineer. His designs dominated the profession of architecture in and New England, spanning his career and after. He was known as one of the most influential architects in the history of New England, and designed custom houses, government buildings, churches, schoolhouses, and private residences across the United States, and was known as being popular among the Boston elite. His most notable designs are foundational buildings on numerous campus across the Northeastern United States, such as on the campuses of Dartmouth College, Tufts College, Bates College, and Harvard College. He has been credited as one of the first modern architects of America, and at the height of his career was the most commissioned architect in New England and the most commissioned in the history of the city of Boston.

Bryant was born to Maria Winship Fox and Gridley Bryant, noted railway pioneer in Scituate, Massachusetts. In his youth he moved to Gardiner, Maine and attended the Garrdiner Lyceum for his secondary education. He studied mathematics and engineering there before leaving joining his fathers engineering office. Outside of his secondary schools studies he interned at local lithographers and artists to experiment with design and artistic manipulation.

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