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Born July 19, 1830 • Liverpool • England
Died September 22, 1905 (aged 75) • England
Movement / Style Gothic Revival • Romanesque revival

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Manchester Town Hall, England, designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
Natural History Museum, London, designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1881.
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Smithsonian Institution
James Renwick
American architect
Sir Charles Barry
British architect
St. John's College Chapel
Sir George Gilbert Scott
British architect
James Wyatt, c. 1800.
James Wyatt
British architect
George Edmund Street
British architect
Northampton
Edward Godwin
British architect and writer
William Butterfield
British architect
Burges, William: St. Finbar's Cathedral
William Burges
British architect
Thomas Rickman
British architect
Bertram G. Goodhue
American architect
Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam
Scottish architect
H.H. Richardson
American architect
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
French architect
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Jasper Francis Cropsey
American painter and architect
Newberry Library
Henry Ives Cobb
American architect
A.W.N. Pugin
British architect and author
Harvey Ellis
American architect and painter
Norman Shaw.
Norman Shaw
British architect
Upjohn, Richard: Trinity Church
Richard Upjohn
American architect
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Ralph Adams Cram
American architect and writer

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