Richard Morris Hunt

Richard Morris Hunt (Brattleboro, 31 ottobre 1827 – Newport, 31 luglio 1895) è stato un architetto statunitense.

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Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island

Hypotenuse, abitazione di Richard Morris Hunt

W. K. Vanderbilt House sulla Fifth Avenue di New York; costruita nel 1885, poi demolita

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 l'Académie des beaux-arts. Tornato negli Stati Uniti nel 1855, vi diffuse il gusto eclettico e lavorò soprattutto per i Vanderbilt.

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Everett-Dunn House, Tenafly, NJ, 1867^[1]
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^[2]
Stuyvesant Apartments, 1869
Marshall Field House, Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 1873
Chateau-sur-Mer, 1870-1873, and 1876-1880^[3]
William K. Vanderbilt House, "Petit Chateau", New York City, 1878–82.^[4]
Henry Marquand House, NYC, 1881–84^[5]
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

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St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Islip, Long Island, New York
Cattedrale di All Souls, Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina

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New York Tribune Building, Park Place, New York, 1873.

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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

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Master plan per la Columbia University Morningside Heights campus, New York, NY

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Honorary Doctorate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (primo architetto a ricevere l'onore)^[6]
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^[7]

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^ [1]
^ Waldo Thompson, Swampscott: Historical Sketches of the Town, 1885, p. 205.
^ http://www.newportmansions.org/learn/architecture/aspects-of-architecture-design/chateau-sur-mer
^ Wayne Craven, Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009, pp. 111–126, ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5.
^ Henry Gurdon Marquand joined Charles McKim as a pallbearer at Hunt's funeral.
^ The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Vol. I, William Roscoe Thayer, The Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1893
^ The Look of Architecture, Witold Rybczynski, Oxford University Press, 2003

Bibliografia modifica

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

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Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Richard Morris Hunt

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Hunt, Richard Morris, su Treccani.it – Enciclopedie on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
Anne Fitz Gerald, HUNT, Richard Morris, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1933.
(EN) Richard Morris Hunt, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
(EN) Opere di Richard Morris Hunt, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
(EN) Opere riguardanti Richard Morris Hunt, su Open Library, Internet Archive.

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 22951545 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 1607 2429 · CERL cnp00555731 · ULAN (EN) 500029112 · LCCN (EN) n79139715 · GND (DE) 119435772 · BNE (ES) XX1689524 (data) · BNF (FR) cb12233162z (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007336960805171 · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-n79139715

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[2] Waldo Thompson, Swampscott: Historical Sketches of the Town, 1885, p. 205.

[3] ttp://www.newportmansions.org/learn/architecture/aspects-of-architecture-design/chateau-sur-mer

[gilded-4] Wayne Craven, Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009, pp. 111–126, ISBN 978-0-393-06754-5.

[5] Henry Gurdon Marquand joined Charles McKim as a pallbearer at Hunt's funeral.

[6] The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Vol. I, William Roscoe Thayer, The Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1893

[7] The Look of Architecture, Witold Rybczynski, Oxford University Press, 2003

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