Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent American architect who designed buildings in Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and other cities. The style he popularized is named for him Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of the recognized trinity of American architecture.

Richardson was born at the Priestley Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and spent part of his childhood in New Orleans, where his family lived on Julia Row in a red brick house designed by the architect Alexander T. Wood. He was the greatgrandson of inventor and philosopher Joseph Priestley, who is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen.

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