Biografia
Hunt nacque in una famiglia colta del Connecticut; era fratello del pittore William Morris Hunt e del pioniere della fotografia Leavitt Hunt. Dopo la morte del padre 1843 la famiglia si trasferì in Svizzera. Richard studiò pertanto dapprima a Ginevra e poi a Parigi, in Francia, dove frequentò lAcadémie des beaux-arts. Tornato negli Stati Uniti nel 1855, vi diffuse il gusto eclettico e lavorò soprattutto per i Vanderbilt.
Progetti
Abitazioni Everett-Dunn House, Tenafly, NJ, 1867 H. B. Hollins''' Country Estate, "Meadow Farm", East Islip, NY J.N.A. Griswold House, Newport, RI 1863–64 Jacob Haskell House, Orient Street, Swampscott, MA, 1871-73 Stuyvesant Apartments, 1869Marshall Field House, Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 1873 Chateau-sur-Mer, 1870-1873, and 1876-1880 William K. Vanderbilt House, "Petit Chateau", New York City, 1878–82. Henry Marquand House, NYC, 1881–84Henry Gurdon Marquand joined Charles McKim as a pallbearer at Hunt's funeral. James Pinchot House, Grey Towers, Milford, Pennsylvania 1884–86 William Borden House, Chicago, Illinois, 1884–89 Ogden Mills House, Fifth Avenue, NYC, 1885–87 Château de Montméry (Theodore Haviland), Ambazac, Haute Vienne (87), France, 1885 Archibald Rogers Estate, Hyde Park New York, 1886–89 William Kissam Vanderbilt House, "Marble House", Newport, Rhode Island, 1888–92 J.R. Busk House, "Indian Springs", attualmente conosciuta come Wrentham House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1889–92 Ogden Goelet House, "Ochre Court", Newport, Rhode Island, 1888–93 Oliver Belmont House, "Belcourt Castle", Newport, Rhode Island, 1891 Elbridge Gerry House, NYC, 1891–94 Newport, Rhode Island, John Jacob Astor IV House, Fifth Avenue, NYC, 1891–95 Dorsheimer-Busk House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1890–93 George Washington Vanderbilt House, "Biltmore Estate", la più grande residenza privata in America Asheville, North Carolina, 1890– Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, "The Breakers", Newport, Rhode Island, 1892–95 Villa per Frederic Edwin Church, Olana, 1875
Chiese St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Islip, Long Island, New York Cattedrale di All Souls, Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina
Edifici commerciali New York Tribune Building, Park Place, New York, 1873.
Edifici pubblici Howland Cultural Center (Howland Library), Beacon, NY, progettata per il cognato Joseph Howland, Howland Cultural Center Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1892–95 (demolita) Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 Clark Hall, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Virginia Hall (ed altri edifici) Hampton Institute (ora Hampton University), Hampton, VA Lenox Library, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art façade and Grand Stairway, New York, NY
Progettazione urbana Master plan per la Columbia University Morningside Heights campus, New York, NY
Premi e riconoscimenti Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (primo architetto a ricevere l'onore) Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1893 (primo architetto americano a ricevere tale onorificenza) Honorary member, Académie française Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Francia
Note
Bibliografia James Murray Howard, Richard Morris Hunt : the development of his stylistic attitudes : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982, Ann Arbor: UMI, 1982 Paul R. Baker, Richard Morris Hunt'', Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980, ISBN 0-262-02139-0
Voci correlate Jarvis Hunt William Morris Hunt
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