Richard Morris Hunt

Richard Morris Hunt
Born(1827-10-31)October 31, 1827
DiedJuly 31, 1895(1895-07-31) (aged 67)
Alma materÉcole des Beaux-Arts
OccupationArchitect
SpouseCatharine Clinton Howland
BuildingsJohn N. A. Griswold House
Chateau-sur-Mer
New York Tribune Building
William K. Vanderbilt House
Marble House
Biltmore Estate
Signature
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City

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.[1]

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.

  1. ^ "The Harvard Graduates' Magazine". Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. March 30, 1893 – via Google Books.