Hunt, Richard Morris, 1828-1895

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 American architecture. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance façade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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 ...

Name: Richard Morris Hunt
Born: October 31, 1827, Brattleboro, Vermont
Parents: Jonathan Hunt, Jane Maria Leavitt Hunt
Spouse: Catharine Clinton Howland, married 1861–1895
Children: Richard Howland Hunt, Joseph Howland Hunt
Notable Projects: Vanderbilt Family Mausoleum, Statue of Liberty Pedestal, Stuyvesant Apartments, The Breakers, Biltmore House
Death: July 31, 1895, Newport, Rhode Island ...