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William Welles Bosworth | |
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 (c.1915) | |
| Born | May 8, 1869 Marietta, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | June 3, 1966 (aged 97) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology École des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse | Renée Marie Oberlé |
| Awards | Legion of Honour Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
| Practice | Carrère and Hastings |
| Buildings | 195 Broadway Kykuit |
| Projects | Palace of Versailles Palace of Fontainebleau Notre-Dame de Reims |
William Welles Bosworth (May 8, 1869 – June 3, 1966)[1] was an American architect whose most famous designs include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge campus, the original AT&T Building in New York City, and the Theodore N. Vail mansion in Morristown, New Jersey (1916, now the Morristown Town Hall). Bosworth was also responsible to a large degree for the architectural expression of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills, New York, working closely with the architects William Adams Delano and Chester H. Aldrich, and the interior designer Ogden Codman.[2][3]
Bosworth is not as well known in the United States as other Beaux-Arts architects of that time, because his career, under the auspices of John D. Rockefeller Jr., led him to France in the 1920s, where he was put in charge of the restoration of the Palace of Versailles, of the Palace of Fontainebleau and of the rebuilding of the roof of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims, projects Rockefeller was interested in and that he financed. In time, Bosworth was awarded the French Legion of Honour and the French Cross of the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the few Americans ever to receive such honors. In 1918, Bosworth was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1928.[4]
- ^ American National Biography Online Archived 2019-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mark Jarzombek, Designing MIT: Bosworth’s New Tech Northeastern University Press, 2004.
- ^ Great Houses of the Hudson River, Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with a preface by Mark Rockefeller, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001. ISBN 0-8212-2767-X.
- ^ "NAD".