Henry Austin (architect)
Grove Street Cemetery Gates James Dwight Dana House John Pitkin Norton House New Haven City Hall
The paucity of precise information concerned with Austin and a lack of many personal papers makes a complete bibliography of his life difficult to write. Austin was born in Hamden, Connecticut in 1804 and was the son of Daniel and Adah Austin. He first seems to have worked as a carpenters apprentice and then began his career in architecture in association with Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, although the nature of his relationship to Town and Davis has not been clearly ascertained. In 1837, he opened his own office in Hartford, evidenced by newspaper advertisements. In Hartford, he designed the tower of Christ Church Cathedral , the Wadsworth Athenaeum with Town and Davis , the demolished gothicrevival Kellogg house , and the longgone 1842 building for St. Johns Episcopal Church he also became associated at this time with Nelson Hotchkiss a New Haven real estate developer and designed with him villas along Park Row in Trenton, NJ, probably his first major commission.
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