Born in New York City into a wealthy and well-educated family, Renwick initially studied engineering at Columbia University. He graduated in 1836, already interested in architecture but with no formal training. His first major commission came in 1843…
Abandoned; the church was burned to the ground in 2014. Resurrection Promise Church, (Formerly First Unitarian Church of Detroit, Michigan). Windows are now at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Born in Priestley Plantation, Louisiana, Richardson was educated at Harvard and then studied architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts (1859–62). While in Europe he worked under Henri Labrouste and Jakob Ignaz Hittorf. He initiated the…