Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in...
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine (redirect from Ithiel Town Building)
Bloomingdale Asylum. The initial plans for the asylum were drawn up by Ithiel Town, but were revised several times to keep the costs within the asylum's...
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in a Classical style. In 1826, Davis began working in the office of Ithiel Town and Martin E. Thompson, the most prestigious architectural firm of the...
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Lattice truss bridge (redirect from Town lattice)
elements forming a lattice. The design was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town. Originally a means of erecting a substantial bridge from mere planks...
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New Haven Green (category New England town greens)
Hartford. The most recent state house was erected in 1837, designed by Ithiel Town in a Greek Revival style. Ultimately, Hartford was declared the sole...
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of downtown Hartford. Its architects were Alexander Jackson Davis and Ithiel Town, who designed the "castle" that is the Atheneum's oldest building. Construction...
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for another government building. The current structure, designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, was built as the U.S. Custom House for the...
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is an 1840 oil painting created by Thomas Cole for New York architect Ithiel Town. Cole incorporated pieces of architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman...
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politician Ithiel Town (1784–1844), American architect and civil engineer Phil Town (born 1948), American investor and motivational speaker Gustavus Town Kirby...
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was constructed in the lattice-truss arch system, which was devised by Ithiel Town and is held together by dowels and wedges. The building has a sandstone...
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in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in the 1820s to a design by Ithiel Town, it is one of the earliest known examples of Gothic Revival architecture...
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Truss (section Town's lattice truss)
truss extending above and below the roadbed. American architect Ithiel Town designed Town's Lattice Truss as an alternative to heavy-timber bridges. His...
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Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction...
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churches on the New Haven Green. This landmark building was designed by Ithiel Town in 1813, built between 1814 and 1815, and consecrated in 1816. It was...
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1905, the design was standardised to the Town québécois, a variant on the lattice truss patented by Ithiel Town in 1820. The designer is unknown. About...
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Alexander Parris William Strickland Martin E. Thompson William Thornton Ithiel Town Ammi B. Young Modern reassessment of the American architecture of the...
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Canal (then called Walker), and Bayard streets. They hired architect Ithiel Town to design the new venue. Some notable investors included Samuel Laurence...
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furnishings). The DeZengs call the home, Lake Home. The home may be the work of Ithiel Town, the partner of Alexander Jackson Davis, who designed the nearby 1852...
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and when sitting in New Haven, in a State House designed in 1827 by Ithiel Town. After the Civil War, the complications of this plan began to be evident...
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Jeremiah Day Thomas Day, (1842) Rev. Dr. Nathaniel William Taylor, (1860) Ithiel Town Frances Pierce & her infant daughter. (1864) Rosehill Cemetery, United...
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called the State Hospital, was designed by prominent New Haven architect Ithiel Town and cost US$13,000. In 1862, the State Hospital was converted to a military...
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Thompson, originally trained as a carpenter, who had been a partner of Ithiel Town and went on to become one of the founders of the National Academy of...
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steeple, the design of which is attributed to Martin Euclid Thompson and Ithiel Town, in Greek Revival style, was erected. More changes came about beginning...
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Kent, Connecticut (category Towns in Litchfield County, Connecticut)
near the site of the present bridge in 1781. Built in 1842 by architect Ithiel Town, this single-lane covered bridge features a lattice truss design. A museum...
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supposedly Native American facial features. A secluded mansion, designed by Ithiel Town, was finished in 1828 at the present-day site of Kline Biology Tower...
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cathedral is restoring Leake & Watts, renamed the Town Building in honor of its architect, Ithiel Town. "Leake Heirs Sue The State. Seek to Recover $86...
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Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut. It was designed by Ithiel Town between 1812 and 1814, while he was building his Federalist-style Center...
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Philadelphia) and the south (Nashville, Tennessee). The design from the firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis was selected by the commission and then approved...
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that is now home to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The architect Ithiel Town designed the orphanage for boys at West 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...
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its distinctive Greek Revival design has been attributed to architect Ithiel Town. Documentation of the house was compiled after 1933. The house was listed...
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