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Richardson (HENRY HOBSON an American)

HENRY HOBSON, an American architect; born in New Orleans, La., in 1838; was graduated at Harvard in 1859; entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1860, where he speedily gained a reputation as a most promising pupil. In 1865 he returned to the United States, and entered on a remarkably successful professional career. He designed some of the most beautiful buildings in this country, notably Trinity Church, Boston; the building of the Boston and Albany railroad, at Springfield, the Albany city hall, the Buffalo Lunatic Asylum, the Cambridge Law Schools, and the new capitol in Albany.

He died in Boston, Mass., April 28, 1886.

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