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Official guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the city of St. Louis, by Major J. Lowenstein, full text available on GoogleBooks
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The Electricity Building on the Court of Honor, 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Designed by Henry Van Brunt
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1904 - Pipe Organ Case of the 10,000 pipe instrument exhibited by the Los Angeles Art Organ Co., Festival Hall,
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In 1869, he married Alice S. Osborn; together they had 6 children. In 1874 Van Brunt published a translation of
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Society of Architectural Historians. Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947.
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Mary Melvin Petronella, Edward W. Gordon. Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours. UPNE, 2004; p.73.
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On the Present Condition and Prospects of Architecture. Atlantic Monthly 57, no. 341 (March 1886).
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His partnership with Ware dissolved in 1881. The same year, Van Brunt and former employee
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1875 - Addition to Gore Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (demolished)
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From 1854 to 1857, he apprenticed with architect George Snell, then worked with
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Civil War Memorial Soldiers and Sailors Memorial 1887 Arlington, Massachusetts
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1870 - Addition to Harvard Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Henry Hobson Richardson, Architect. Atlantic Monthly 58:349 (November 1886).
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During the Civil War, Van Brunt served as Secretary to the Admiral of the
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Greek Lines and Other Architectural Essays. Houghton, Mifflin. 1893
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1883 - 167 Brattle Street (his residence), Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Architecture in the West, Atlantic Monthly 64:386 (December 1889).
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1883 - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (demolished)
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Walter Hunnewell house, Wellesley, MA (1875), Ware and Van Brunt
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Van Brunt returned to Massachusetts around 1902, and died in
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1889 - Union Pacific Railroad Depot, North 2nd Street,
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1893 - Electricity Building and the Wyoming Building,
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Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1903; p.601.
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In the 1860s, Van Brunt and fellow Harvard graduate
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Palace of Varied Industries, St. Louis World's Fair
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Memorial Hall (Harvard University)
World's Columbian Exposition

FAIA
architect

Cambridge Public Library
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Boston
Gershom Jacques Van Brunt
Boston Latin School
Harvard College
Richard Morris Hunt
North Atlantic Squadron
United States Navy
William Robert Ware
Memorial Hall
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Frank M. Howe
Kansas City
Union Pacific Railroad
Ogden, Utah
Denver, Colorado
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Omaha, Nebraska
Richardsonian Romanesque
Hoyt Library
American Institute of Architects
Milton, Massachusetts

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