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a prolific English architect and garden designer. Also, particularly associated with projects in the classical style in London parks, including buildings at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and London Zoo, and with the layout and architecture of the seaside towns of Fleetwood and St Leonards-on-Sea, and the spa town Tunbridge Wells.
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Decimus Burton1800, Sep 301818
 
18691881, Dec 14

Levi Weeks17761800
 
18191819
 the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first murder trial in the Un...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe1764, May 11784
 
18201820, Sep 3
 a British subject and neoclassical architect. In his thirties, he emigrated to the new United Sta...
Barthelemy Lafon17691790
 
18201820, Sep 29
 a notable Creole architect, engineer, city planner, and surveyor in New Orleans, Louisiana. He ap...
Thomas Jefferson1743, Apr 21767
 
18241826, Jul 4
 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ...
Joseph Christian Lillie1760, Mar 201775
 
18271827, Jan 29
 a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he ...
William Thornton1759, May 201789
 
18281828, Mar 28
 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi...
Mary Townley17531770
 
18291839
 she designed several buildings in Ramsgate in the late 18th century, making her one of England's ...
James Hoban1758 ca1779
 
18291831, Dec 8
 an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C. He excelled in h...
John McComb Jr.17631792
 
18291853
 an American architect who designed many landmarks in the 18th and 19th centuries. McComb's father...
Joao Frederico Ludovice16731698
 
1831752
 a German born architect and goldsmith. Ludovice was born in Hohenhart. In 1698 he went to Italy, ...
John Nash1752, Jan 181778
 
18301835, May 13
 a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London under the patronage of t...
John Soane1753, Sep 101780
 
18321837, Jan 20
 an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose...
Charles Bulfinch1763, Aug 81788
 
18321844, Apr 15
 an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to p...
Thomas Telford1757, Aug 91771
 
18341834, Sep 2
 a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After es...
Christian Heinrich Nebbien17781783
 
18391841
  a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho...
Joseph-Jacques Ramee1764, Apr 261790
 
18391842, May 18
 a French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist i...
William Wilkins1778, Aug 311804
 
18391839, Aug 31
 an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery and U...
Karl Friedrich Schinkel1781, Mar 131805
 
18391841, Oct 9
 a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schin...
Vasily P. Stasov1769, Aug 41810
 
18391848, Sep 5
 a Russian architect. He extensively travelled in France and Italy, where he became professor at t...
Giovanni Paolo Panini1691, Jun 171710
 
1841765, Oct 21
 a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view pa...
Asher Benjamin1773, Jun 151794
 
18411845, Jul 26
 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t...
Giuseppe Jappelli1783, May 141819
 
 
18421852, May 8
 an Italian neoclassic architect and engineer who was born and died in Venice. He studied at the C...
Ithiel Town1784, Oct 31810
 
18431844, Jun 13
 a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional ar...
Friedrich Ludwig Persius1803, Feb 151817
 
18451845, Jul 12
 a Prussian architect and a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Persius assisted Schinkel with, am...
George Webster1797, May 31818
 
18451864, Apr 16
 an English architect who practised in Kendal, which was at the time in Westmorland, and later in ...
William Burn1789, Dec 201811
 
18461870, Feb 15
 a Scottish architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style. A talented architect, he received m...
Carlo Rossi1775, Dec 181795
 
18491849, Apr 18
 an Italian architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia. He was the author of ma...
Leo von Klenze1784, Feb 291808
 
18491864, Jan 26
 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ...
Richard Lane1795, Apr 31821
 
 
18491880, May 25
 a distinguished English architect of the early and mid-19th century. Born in London and based in ...
Alexander Parris1780, Nov 241801
 
18501852, Jun 16
 a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect...
Abdallah Khanunknown1810
 
1850unknown
 a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenti...
John Frazee1790, Jul 181820
 
 
18501852, Feb 24
 an American sculptor and architect. The Smithsonian has a collection of many of his sculptures as...
Konstantin Andreyevich Thon1794, Oct 261827
 
 
18511881, Jan 25
 an official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include ...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin1812, May 11825
 
 
18521852, Sep 14
 an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in ...
Pierre François Leonard Fontaine1762, Sep 201794
 
18531853, Oct 10
 a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worke...
William Strickland1788, Nov1800
 
18531854, Apr 6
 a noted architect in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin ...
Robert Mills1781, Aug 121800
 
18551855, Mar 3
 known for designing the Washington Monument, is sometimes called the first native born American t...
Thomas Cubitt1788, Feb 251810
 
18551855, Dec 20
 was the leading master builder in London in the second quarter of the 19th century, and also carr...
Joseph Bonomi the Younger1796, Oct 91824
 
 
18561878, mar 3
 an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator. From 1824 to 1826, he was a member ...
Thomas Alexander Tefft1826, Aug 21840
 
 
18561859, Dec 12
 an American architect, from Providence, Rhode Island. He entered the office of Tallman & Bucklin,...
Gustav Friedrich Hetsch1788, Sep 281815
 
18571864, Sep 7
 a Danish architect of German origin. Though most of his accomplishments were in the area of decor...
Philip Hardwick1792, Jun 151819
 
 
18571870, Dec 28
 an English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and ...
Sir Charles Barry1795, May 231812
 
18581860, May 12
 an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (als...
Auguste de Montferrand1786, Jan 231815
 
18581858, Jul 10
 a French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia. His two best known works are the ...
Charles Reed18141840
 
 
18591859, Dec 13
 an English architect, designing villas and estate. In addition to designing buildings locally, Re...
William Hosking1800, Nov 261820
 
 
18611861, Aug 2
 an English writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and devel...
Ammi B. Young1798, jun 191828
 
 
18611874, Mar 14
 a 19th-century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Ne...
Ignatius Bonomi17871817
 
18621870
 an English architect and surveyor, strongly associated with Durham in north-east England. Bonomi...
John Dobson1787, Dec 91811
 
18631865, Jan 8
 a 19th-century English architect in the neoclassical tradition. He became the most noted architec...
Enrico Marconi1792, Jan 71822
 
 
18631863, Feb 21
 an Italian architect who spent most of his life in Congress Poland. He was commissioned by genera...
Frederick Marrable1819, Jan1835
 
 
18641872, Jun 22
 a British architect who was notable as the first Chief Architect for the Metropolitan Board of Wo...
Joseph Paxton1803, Aug 31823
 
 
18651865, Jun 8
 an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Pal...
Isaiah Rogers1800, Aug 171829
 
 
18651869, Apr 13
 a US architect who practiced in Mobile, Alabama, Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, New York, ...
James Augustus Suydam18191850
 
 
18651865
 an architect, lawyer, and artist; as an artist was considered one of the premier Luminism painter...
Ferdinand von Arnim1814, Sep 151839
 
 
18661866, Mar 23
 a German architect and watercolour-painter. He became a member of the Berlin Architects' Associat...
Anton Pius Riegel1789, Dec 51810
 
18681868, Aug 7
 an Austrian architect of the 19th century. He is mainly known for the design of the Károlyi pala...
Henri Labrouste1801, May 111821
 
 
18681875, Jun 24
 a French architect from the famous École des Beaux-Arts school of architecture. After a six-year...
Antoine-Louis Barye1796, Sep 241810
 
18691875, Jun 25
 an Italian painter and architect of the early-Baroque period, active in Rome and Spain, where he ...
Matthew Digby Wyatt1820, Jul 281851
 
18691877, May 21
 a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of t...
Gridley James Fox Bryant1816, Aug 291830
 
18711899, Jun 8
 a 19th-century Boston architect and builder. His work was seen in custom houses, government build...
Samuel Sanders Teulon1812, Mar 21838
 
18731873, May 2
 a 19th-century English Gothic Revival architect, noted for his use of polychrome brickwork, and t...
Marie Adrien Persac18231856
 
18731873
 a French-born painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer and inventor, Marie Adrien Persac was...
Edward Blore1787, Sep 131811
 
18741879, Sep 4
 a 19th-century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. In 1826, he w...
Eugene Viollet-le-Duc1814, Jan 271830
 
18741879, Sep 17
 a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings...
David Bryce1803, Apr 31825
 
18761876, May 7
 a Scottish architect. In the course of a busy and successful career, which was actively continued...
George Gilbert Scott1811, Jul 311830
 
18761878, Mar 27
 an English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation ...
Gottfried Semper1803, Nov 291834
 
18761879, May 15
 a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper ...
Kolyu Ficheto18001836
 
18761881
 a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor. Some of his notable works include t...
Edmund Sharpe1809, Oct 311835
 
18771877, May 8
 an English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer, and sanitary reformer. Born in K...
Alexander Jackson Davis1803, Jul 241820
 
18781892, Jan 14
 was one of the most successful and influential American architects of his generation, known parti...
Richard Upjohn1802, Jan 221834
 
18781878, Aug 16
 a British-born American architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for h...
Lewis Cubitt1799, Sep 291820
 
18791883, Jun 9
 an English civil engineer, he was a younger brother of Thomas Cubitt. He built many bridges in hi...
Sir James Pennethorne1801, Jun 41820
 
18791871, Sep 1
 a 19th-century English architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in...
Thomas Leverton Donaldson1795, Oct 191826
 
18791885, Aug 1
 a British architect, notable as a pioneer in architectural education, as a co-founder and Preside...
Thomas Henry Wyatt1807, May 91832
 
18791880, Aug 5
 an Anglo-Irish architect who had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of ...
Philip Charles Hardwick18221847
 
18791892
 an English architect. Philip Charles Hardwick was born in Westminster in London, the son of the a...
Henry Austin [2]1804, Dec 41837
 
18801891, Dec 17
 a prominent and prolific American architect, practiced for more than fifty years and designed man...
William Burges1827, Dec 21844
 
18801881, Apr 20
 an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought ...
George Edmund Street1824, Jun 201840
 
18811881, Dec 18
 an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner...
Leopold Eidlitz1823, Mar 101843
 
18811908
 a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New...
Frederick Thatcher18141835
 
18821890, Oct 19
 an English and New Zealand architect and clergyman. He was born at Hastings to a long-established...
Charles Barry Jr.18231849
 
18841900
 an English architect of the mid-late 19th century, and eldest son of Sir Charles Barry. Like his ...
Thomas U. Walter1804, Sep 41830
 
18871887, Oct 30
 an American architect, the dean of American architecture between the 1820 death of Benjamin Latro...
Sir Horace Jones1819, May 201843
 
18871887, May 21
 an English architect particularly noted for his work as Architect and Surveyor to the City of Lon...
John Ruskin1819, Feb 81829
 
18891900, Jan 20
 the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, water...
William Mason [3]1810, Feb 241830
 
18891897, Jun 22
 a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich, England, the son of an architect/builder George Mason. T...
James Renwick Jr.1818, Nov 111840
 
18891895, Jun 23
 an American architect in the 19th century, called one of the most successful American architects ...
George Devey18201850
 
18891886
 a British architect, most of whose work was on country houses and their estates, especially those...
Robert Mylne1733, Jan 41758
 
1891811, May 5
 a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars B...
Alphonse Balat1819, May 151839
 
18901895, Sep 16
 a Belgian architect. After Leopold II ascended the throne in 1865, Balat became his principal arc...
Calvert Vaux1824, Dec 201850
 
18921895, Nov 19
 a British-American architect and landscape designer. He is best known as the co-designer, along w...
Henry Engelbert18261852
 
18921901
 an architect best known for buildings in the French Second Empire style, which emphasized elabora...
Hendrik Beyaert1823, Jul 291846
 
18941894, Jan 22
 a Belgian architect, considered one of the most important Belgian architects of the 19th-century....
Edward Graham Paley1823, Sep 31845
 
18951895, Jan 23
 an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th centu...
Charles Garnier1825, Nov 61848
 
18951898, Aug 3
 a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de M...
Frederick Law Olmsted1822, Apr 261850
 
18951903, Aug 28
 an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popul...
Thomas Worthington1826, Apr 111840
 
18971909, Nov 9
 a 19th-century English architect, particularly associated with public buildings in and around Man...
Edward Clark1822, Aug 151840
 
19021902, Jan 6
 an American architect who served as Architect of the Capitol from 1865 to 1902. While still in hi...
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