Richard Howland Hunt

Richard Howland Hunt
Born(1862-03-14)March 14, 1862
Paris, France
DiedJuly 12, 1931(1931-07-12) (aged 69)
New York City, US
Resting placeNewport, Rhode Island[1]
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
École des Beaux-Arts
5 East 66th Street, now the Lotos Club
The 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, completed in 1906
The First Police Precinct Station, now the New York City Police Museum

Richard Howland Hunt (March 14, 1862 – July 12, 1931) was an American architect and member of the Hunt family of Vermont who worked with his brother Joseph Howland Hunt in New York City at Hunt & Hunt.

The brothers were sons of Richard Morris Hunt, the first American Beaux-Arts architect. Richard practiced in his father's office until the elder Hunt died in 1895, then continued to carry out his father's designs for the central block of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[2] not without initial resistance by the museum's trustees.[3] In 1901, the brothers formed a partnership[4] that lasted until Joseph's death in 1924.[5]

  1. ^ "Richard Howland Hunt, New York City Deaths". familysearch.org.
  2. ^ Hunt was unable to persuade the Museum's trustees to complete the sculptural groups. Bogart, Michele H. Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City 1989:158-65
  3. ^ Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press 1980:442ff.
  4. ^ Landmarks Preservation Commission: First Precinct Police station, 20 September 1977 Accessed 2 December 2008. Basic biographical details.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference JHHObit1924 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).