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  Richard Upjohn
UPJOHN, Richard, architect, born in Shaftesbury, England, 22 January, 1802 ; died in Garrison's, Putnam County, New York, 16 August, 1878.
Upjohn's skill were first made apparent, and his professional career as an architect was thereafter assured.
Upjohn was president of the American institute of architects from 1857 till 1876.--His son, Richard Michell, architect, born in Shaftesbury, England, 7 March, 1828, came to New York in 1829.
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  AIArchitect, October 24, 2005 - Richard Upjohn: The Foundation of the Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
“Richard Upjohn had long recognized the unsatisfactory state of his profession and the need for an active organization to foster fellowship among architects, to discuss their problems, and to clarify the various relations of the architect and the community,” notes Richard Upjohn, Architect and Churchman, by E.M. Upjohn (1939).
Upjohn was appointed chair of the meeting and urged quick action before the impetus to organize dwindled.
Upjohn retired from active practice in 1872 and declined to be a candidate for office in 1876, a decision accepted by the members only after his son-in-law, architect Charles Babcock, implored the members to accept his decision.
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 Richard Upjohn House Antiquarian & Landmarks Headquarters Hartford CT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Richard Upjohn House Antiquarian and Landmarks Headquarters Hartford CT The Antiquarian and Landmarks Society
The Richard Upjohn House, was built in 1875 for Charles Boardman Smith (1811-1900), senior partner of a prominent saddlery and harness manufactory, Smith Bourn and Co. It is the only house in the greater Hartford attributed to the esteemed architect of the Connecticut State Capitol, Richard M. Upjohn.
The Upjohn House is the starting point for "Hartford Dreamers and Doers: Legacies of a Victorian City," a multi-site group tour that highlights the Capitol City's Victorian attractions.
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 BookRags: Richard Upjohn Biography
Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) was an English-born American architect whose expressive vocabulary of Gothic design helped to make this style popular in the mid-19th century.
Richard Upjohn was born in Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, on Jan. 22, 1802.
Upjohn's public and commercial buildings were generally done in an Italianate style with semicircular, arched windows and doors.
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 Upjohn
Upjohn further called attention to the sanctuary by placing a bell turret near it at the northeast angle of the building.
In 1866 Upjohn's beautiful church was the natural choice to become the Episcopal Cathedral tor the new Diocese of Western New York, a function it continues to perform.
The most notable deviation from Upjohn occurs in the final bay of the nave arcade where two oversized arches, described as transept arches, rise to the roof, interrupting the clerestory.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Richard
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 Upjohn Richard - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Upjohn, Richard (1802-1878), Anglo-American architect, born in Shaftesbury, England.
By the middle of the century, various other revivalist styles were in vogue, notably Gothic, which became established as the principal style for...
Richard III (1452-1485), king of England (1483-1485), of the House of York.
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 Upjohn, Richard - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
UPJOHN, RICHARD [Upjohn, Richard] 1802-78, American architect, b.
Upjohn designed the old St. Thomas's Church in New York City (later burned), several churches in Brooklyn, the chapel of Bowdoin College, smaller Gothic churches, and many residences.
His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, 1828-1903, architect of the Connecticut State Capitol, was associated with his father.
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 TIME.com: Trinity -- Jun. 24, 1935 -- Page 1
Richard Upjohn was a co-founder (1857) and first president of the American Institute of Architects.
Richard Upjohn, a bearded, sanctimonious Briton, was a carpenter and cabinet maker with a nice appreciation of Perpendicular Gothic, who settled in New Bedford, Mass, in the late 1820's.
The beard and the talent of Richard Michell Upjohn were both shorter than those of his illustrious father, but he had a burning pride in his firm, inherited his father's deep devotion to the Episcopal Church and the Gothic style.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Richard
Hooker, Richard HOOKER, RICHARD [Hooker, Richard] 1554?-1600, English theologian and clergyman of the Church of England.
Upjohn, Richard UPJOHN, RICHARD [Upjohn, Richard] 1802-78, American architect, b.
From Baghdad to Beirut: NBC News correspondent Richard Engel opens a bureau in Lebanon as the Arab-Israeli conflict escalates.
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 American Institute of Architects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1800s, anyone (masons, carpenters, bricklayers, etc.) could claim to be an architect; no schools of architecture or architectural licensing laws existed.
On February 23, 1857, a group of 13 architects in New York City (Richard Upjohn, H.
Cleaveland, Henry Dudley, Leopold Eidlitz, Edward Gardiner, Richard Morris Hunt, J.
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 St. Paul's
Upjohn himself is said to have regarded it as his finest church.
Upjohn had earned a national reputation for his design of New York's Trinity Episcopal Church (1846) - which firmly established the Gothic Revival in American church architecture.
Gibson, an Englishman like Upjohn, was widely admired for his All Saints Cathedral in Albany (a commission he won in 1883).
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 Richard Upjohn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crane Monument (Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo), designed by Richard Upjohn, 1853
Richard Upjohn (1802 - 1878) was a U.S. architect.
Originally from England, he was accustomed to working in the Gothic Revival style, and is responsible for launching the movement to such popularity in the United States.
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 State Street Begins
When that structure became seriously deteriorated, Richard Upjohn of New York City was hired to plan a new edifice on the same site.
Upjohn was well known as the designer of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan and as an American pioneer in using the Gothic Revival style for religious structures….
…The alter and reredos (1885) were designed by Richard M. Upjohn; Louis St. Gaudens, brother of Augustus St. Gaudens, sculpted the angels on the reredos.
www.albany.edu /museum/wwwmuseum/statestreet/sssbegins.html   (637 words)

  
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Architectural drawings by Richard Upjohn in the Library of Congress, introduced with a brief biography of this key figure in introducing the...
"Richard Upjohn was a friend of some of the manufacturing scions in Taunton and did work for them at their summer cottages in...
Richard Upjohn (1802-1878): biography, list of executed works (structures actually built), bibliography, references, relevant literature and...
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 The Taunton Gazette - Praise offered church's lasting beauty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although city developers demolished a quarter of Upjohn's local legacy during the upswing of urban renewal in the 1960s, part of it can still be seen today.
"Richard Upjohn was a friend of some of the manufacturing scions in Taunton and did work for them at their summer cottages in Newport," Prescott said.
"[The society] is housed in the old Bristol Academy building, designed in 1852 by Richard Upjohn, architect of New York City's Trinity Church," according to a brief history of the organization on the OCHS website, written by directors Lisa A. Compton, Katheryn P. Viens and Jane M. Hennedy.
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 AllRefer.com - Richard Upjohn (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, 1828–1903, architect of the Connecticut State Capitol, was associated with his father.
See E. Upjohn, Richard Upjohn, Architect and Churchman (1939).
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 The Grove, Cold Spring New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Grove was built by famed American architect Richard Upjohn (pictured above) in 1852, for Frederick Devoux Lente who served as surgeon for the nearby West Point Foundry.
Originally designed in the Italianate style, with a low pitched hipped roof, curved windows, wrap-around porch, decorative chimneys and modest bracket work, it was later enlarged by the addition of a decorative slate clad mansard roof, most likely just after the Civil War.
Richard Upjohn is buried in the cemetery at St. Philips in Garrison.
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 Amazon.com: richard_upjohn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Richard Upjohn, Richard Michell Upjohn and the Gothic Revival in America (Architecture series--bibliography) by Lamia Doumato (Paperback - Oct 1984)
Upjohn's Rural Architecture: Designs, Working Drawings, and Specifications for a Wooden Church, and Other Rural Structures (Da Capo Press series in architecture and decorative art) by Richard Upjohn (Hardcover - Jun 1975)
Richard Upjohn, churchman and architect by John Wheelwright (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1939)
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 Alabama Heritage Spring 2002, Issue 64
But few people know that Richard Upjohn was perhaps best known in the American South for a much simpler set of blueprints that he practically gave away for free.
An immigrant to the United States from England, Upjohn was commissioned to design New York's Trinity Church in 1833, a project which could have earned him a place in history by itself.
But Upjohn was a devout Anglican with a sense of charity, and he wanted to design smaller, low-cost churches or struggling congregations who could not afford his professional services.
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 Restoration
The Cathedral is considered by many to be Richard Upjohn's architectural master- piece.
Gracing Manhattan's historic Chelsea District, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava is a splendid example of Gothic Revival architecture.
It served local Episcopalians for the next 92 years, including the renowned author Edith Wharton, who not only was married in the Chapel, but who also immortalized the milieu and the church in The Age of Innocence, her classic novel of Victorian New York Life.
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 History of The American Institute of Architects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On February 23, 1857, 13 architects met in Richard Upjohn's office to form what would become The American Institute of Architects.
The group included H. Cleaveland, Henry Dudley, Leopold Eidlitz, Edward Gardiner, Richard Morris Hunt, J. Wrey Mould, Fred A. Peterson, J. Priest, John Welch, and Joseph C. Wells, as well as Upjohn's son Richard and son-in-law Charles Babcock.
On April 13, after a luncheon at Delmonico's restaurant, a small group, led by Richard Upjohn, went to New York City Hall and filed a certificate of incorporation before Judge James J. Roosevelt.
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 American Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Richard Upjohn trained as a cabinet maker in his native England before emigrating to the United States at age 26.
Upjohn is best known for his churches, including Trinity Church in New York City.
His use of pointed gables and decorative woodwork used on Kingscote in Newport, Rhodes Island was well-suited to Victorian domestic tastes.
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 New York Architecture Images- Richard M Upjohn
Upjohn designed the old St. Thomas's Church in New York City (later burned), several churches in Brooklyn, the chapel of Bowdoin College, smaller Gothic churches, and many residences.
His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, 1828–1903, architect of the Connecticut State Capitol, was associated with his father.
See E. Upjohn, Richard Upjohn, Architect and Churchman (1939).
www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-RichardMUpjohn.htm   (174 words)

  
 Exhibits - Hudson Museum, The University of Maine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the pilot's seat was her first husband, Richard Upjohn Light.
Mary was to serve as co-pilot, radio operator, and photographer on a journey that took the couple over Texas, Mexico, and Central America, down the western side of South America and then from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza, Argentina and on to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
Aerial Photographs of Mary Upjohn Meader explores Meader's pioneering work, which is still studied and widely known by geographers and anthropologists today.
www.umaine.edu /hudsonmuseum/exhi.php   (677 words)

  
 Richard Upjohn — Infoplease.com
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Upjohn was highly educated and skilled at Gothic Architecture.
He was a member of the Ecclesiological Society, whose goals were "to gather drawings and descriptions of medieval churches and to campaign for church restoration, reestablishing chancels and alters within them."(3) He also served as president of the American Institute of Architects from 1857 till 1876, two years before his death in 1878.
George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey, who served as rector of St. Mary's in Burlington, New Jersey from 1833 to 1859.
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 Images of St. John Chrysostum Church by Richard Upjohn
This Episcopal church is named for the most prominent doctor of the Greek Church and one of the greatest preachers ever heard in a Christian pulpit (thus the name Chrysostomos, "golden-mouthed," because of his eloquence).
The painted wood "Village Gothic" church with its free-standing wooden belfry was designed either by Richard Upjohn or his son, Richard M. Upjohn.
Richly ornamented bargeboards (or vergeboards--because on the verge or incline) conceal the ends of the rafters.
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 AIA 2006 National Convention and Design Exposition - Richard Upjohn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By invitation only, this annual reception, hosted by CNA Insurance Companies, Victor O. Schinnerer and Company Inc. and the AIA Trust, is given in honor of the Richard Upjohn Fellows (former AIA national Board members) and the current national AIA Board of Directors.
As the events for the AIA 2006 National Convention and Design Exposition wind down, take this opportunity to laugh, dine, and enjoy the company of your friends one more time before you head home.
Spouses of former AIA national Board members (Richard Upjohn Fellows) are invited to attend this informal afternoon lunch gathering.
www.aiaconvention.com /live/61/events/61lax06a/Events/CC85633   (162 words)

  
 AIA150 - The First Fifty Years
The organization began in New York City on February 23 when 13 architects met in the office of Richard Upjohn, in a building he designed at 111 Broadway.
In addition to Upjohn, the following architects attended the founding meeting: Charles Babcock, Henry W. Cleaveland, Henry Dudley, Leopold Eidlitz, Edward Gardiner, Richard Morris Hunt, Jacob Wray Mould, Frederick A. Petersen, John M. Priest, John Welch, Joseph C. Wells, and Richard Mitchell Upjohn (Richard Upjohn's son).
The group initially called itself the New York Society of Architects but changed its name to The American Institute of Architects at a subsequent meeting.
www.aia150.org /aia150_firstfifty.php   (426 words)

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