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Peter Harrison (June 14, 1716 – April 30, 1775) was a colonial American architect in New England who is credited with bringing the Palladian architectural movement to the colonies.
Jun 10, 2024 · Peter Harrison was a British-American architect who became popular through his adaptations of designs by the great architects of history. As a sea captain, Harrison went to Rhode Island in 1740 and settled in Newport, where he engaged in agriculture and the rum trade.
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Jul 14, 2020 · Peter Harrison was born in York, England, and when he was twelve years old he was apprenticed to William Etty, a local builder-architect, whose best-known design is the York Mansion House of 1725, that was influenced by Somerset House, London.
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He became arguably the greatest architect who ever lived in America, with about 450 buildings and numerous examples of the finest furniture to his credit, and was the first architect to design buildings on every known continent, but is little known today because nearly all his papers were destroyed during the American Revolutionary War.
Jan 19, 2021 · Among the many great architects who have worked in Newport, RI over the years, Peter Harrison (1716-1775) is often considered the first “true architect,” not only in Newport, but in the American colonies.
INTRODUCTION to HARRISON DRAWINGS. In 1959, while I was a 14-year-old student at Charterhouse, a famous British boarding-school, I passionately started research into a then anonymous British architect, a talented and prolific contemporary of Sir Christopher Wren.
The chapel building, completed in 1754, is one of the finest designs of the noted colonial architect Peter Harrison, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its architectural significance.
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