Charles Bulfinch

Charles Bulfinch Grave
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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Charles Bulfinch was one of the first American architects. He completed his education at Harvard College with a Master’s degree in 1784. He traveled Europe from 1785 to 1787 where he developed an appreciation for classical architecture in Italy and neo classical architecture in England. He married Hanna Apthorp in 1788 and later had two sons: Thomas Bulfinch and Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch.

Among some of his better known buildings and designs were the United States Capitol rotunda and dome, the Old State House in Hartford Conn., the Massachusetts State House, the Hollis Street Church and the New North Church in Boston, the memorial column on Beacon Hill, the Federal Street Theatre, the Tontine Crescent, the design of Boston Common, the India Wharf, the Meeting House in Lancaster MA and University Hall at Harvard. He designed, built, and constructed many other buildings and houses.
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Charles Bulfinch

Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Bulfinch