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    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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    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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    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 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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