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Architects • Legal born active died
1776 1800-1819 1819
the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the United States for which there is a recorded transcript. At the time of the murder, Weeks was a young carpenter in New York City. He was the brother of Ezra Weeks , one of New York's most successful builders of the time. Weeks was accused of murdering Gulielma "Elma" Sands, a young woman whom he had been courting. Elma disappeared on the evening of December 22, 1799. Some of her possessions were found two days later near the recently created Manhattan Well in Lispenard Meadows, located in today's SoHo.
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James Bloodworth 1759, Mar 7 1788 1803 1804, Mar 21 A master bricklayer and builder responsible for the construction of most of the buildings in the ... Laurent-Benoît Dewez 1731, Apr 14 1758 1804 1812, Nov 1 a Belgian architect of Walloon origin. He is considered the most influential architect in the Aus... Joseph Bonomi the Elder 1739, Jan 19 1768 1804 1808, Mar 9 an Italian architect and draughtsman who spent most of his career in England where he became a su... Charles Percier 1764, Aug 22 1784 1804 1838, Sep 5 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who was one of the inventors an... Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart 1739, Feb 15 1782 1807 1813, Jun 6 a prominent French architect. Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart designed hotels, including the Hôt... Giuseppe Piermarini 1734, Jul 18 1765 1808 1808, Feb 18 an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala... Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard 1743, Sep 11 1764 1809 1809, Jun 4 a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, ... Aleijadinho 1730/38 1770 1809 1814, Nov 18 noted for his works on and in various churches of Brazil. Within a very short time he had become ... Samuel McIntire 1757, Jan 16 1780 1809 1811, Feb 6 an American architect and craftsman, Chestnut Street District, a legacy to one of the earliest ar... Ezra Weeks unknown 1800 1809 unknown a successful builder who served as a witness in a sensationalized murder trial. John McComb, the... Michael Searles 1750 1780 1813 1813 famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notab... Giacomo Quarenghi 1744, Sep 20/21 1770 1817 1817, Feb 18 was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, par... Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764, May 1 1784 1820 1820, Sep 3 a British subject and neoclassical architect. In his thirties, he emigrated to the new United Sta... Barthelemy Lafon 1769 1790 1820 1820, Sep 29 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap... Thomas Jefferson 1743, Apr 2 1767 1824 1826, Jul 4 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ... Joseph Christian Lillie 1760, Mar 20 1775 1827 1827, Jan 29 a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he ... William Thornton 1759, May 20 1789 1828 1828, Mar 28 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi... Mary Townley 1753 1770 1829 1839 she designed several buildings in Ramsgate in the late 18th century, making her one of England's ... James Hoban 1758 ca 1779 1829 1831, Dec 8 an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C. He excelled in h... John McComb Jr. 1763 1792 1829 1853 an American architect who designed many landmarks in the 18th and 19th centuries. McComb's father... Joao Frederico Ludovice 1673 1698 183 1752 a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, ... John Nash 1752, Jan 18 1778 1830 1835, May 13 a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London under the patronage of t... John Soane 1753, Sep 10 1780 1832 1837, Jan 20 an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose... Charles Bulfinch 1763, Aug 8 1788 1832 1844, Apr 15 an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to p... Thomas Telford 1757, Aug 9 1771 1834 1834, Sep 2 a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After es... Christian Heinrich Nebbien 1778 1783 1839 1841 a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho... Joseph-Jacques Ramee 1764, Apr 26 1790 1839 1842, May 18 a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist i... William Wilkins 1778, Aug 31 1804 1839 1839, Aug 31 an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery and U... Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1781, Mar 13 1805 1839 1841, Oct 9 a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schin... Vasily P. Stasov 1769, Aug 4 1810 1839 1848, Sep 5 a Russian architect. He extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor at t... Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691, Jun 17 1710 184 1765, Oct 21 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa... Lauritz de Thurah 1706, Mar 4 1725 184 1759, Sep 5 a Danish architect and architectural writer. He became the most important Danish architect of the... Asher Benjamin 1773, Jun 15 1794 1841 1845, Jul 26 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t... Ithiel Town 1784, Oct 3 1810 1843 1844, Jun 13 a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional ar... Friedrich Ludwig Persius 1803, Feb 15 1817 1845 1845, Jul 12 a Prussian architect and a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel with, am... George Webster 1797, May 3 1818 1845 1864, Apr 16 an English architect who practised in Kendal, which was at the time in Westmorland, and later in ... William Burn 1789, Dec 20 1811 1846 1870, Feb 15 a Scottish architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. A talented architect, he received m... Carlo Rossi 1775, Dec 18 1795 1849 1849, Apr 18 an Italian architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia. He was the author of ma... Leo von Klenze 1784, Feb 29 1808 1849 1864, Jan 26 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ... Alexander Parris 1780, Nov 24 1801 1850 1852, Jun 16 a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect... Abdallah Khan unknown 1810 1850 unknown a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti... Pierre François Leonard Fontaine 1762, Sep 20 1794 1853 1853, Oct 10 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worke... William Strickland 1788, Nov 1800 1853 1854, Apr 6 a noted architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin ... Robert Mills 1781, Aug 12 1800 1855 1855, Mar 3 known for designing the Washington Monument, is sometimes called the first native born American t... Thomas Cubitt 1788, Feb 25 1810 1855 1855, Dec 20 was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carr... Gustav Friedrich Hetsch 1788, Sep 28 1815 1857 1864, Sep 7 a Danish architect of German origin. Though most of his accomplishments were in the area of decor... Sir Charles Barry 1795, May 23 1812 1858 1860, May 12 an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (als... Auguste de Montferrand 1786, Jan 23 1815 1858 1858, Jul 10 a French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia. His two best known works are the ... Ignatius Bonomi 1787 1817 1862 1870 an English architect and surveyor, strongly associated with Durham in north-east England. Bonomi... John Dobson 1787, Dec 9 1811 1863 1865, Jan 8 a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architec... Anton Pius Riegel 1789, Dec 5 1810 1868 1868, Aug 7 an Austrian architect of the 19th century. He is mainly known for the design of the Károlyi pala... Antoine-Louis Barye 1796, Sep 24 1810 1869 1875, Jun 25 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ... Decimus Burton 1800, Sep 30 1818 1869 1881, Dec 14 a prolific English architect and garden designer. Also, particularly associated with projects in... Edward Blore 1787, Sep 13 1811 1874 1879, Sep 4 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w... Robert Mylne 1733, Jan 4 1758 189 1811, May 5 a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars B...
