St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

NOTED ARCHITECT.
DEATH AT NEWPORT OF FAMOUS
RICHARD MORRIS
HUNT.
WORLD WIDE CELEBRITY.
RECOGNIZED AS THE FIRST
IN HIS LINE IN ANFD
ICA.
WORLD WIDE CELEBRITY.
Capitol at Washington, Worlds
Fair buildings and OthA"
Noble Structures.

NEWPORT, R. l., July 31.-Richard
Fl. Hunt, a we'll known architect and
designer of Worlds fair buildings, W.
K. Vanderbilts marble palace, Corne-
Illus Vanderbilts New Breakers and
other Newport villas, died this after
noon. Heart failure was the cause of
his death. He had been feeling unwell
for several weeks, but nothing serious
was anticipated until yesterday, when
his condition became alarming He
leaves widow, two sons and three
daughters. All the members of the
family were present at the bedside
Richard Morris Hunt was born in
Brattleboro, VT, on the 31st of Octo-
Der, 1928. He descended from an old
New England family. His father was
Jonathan Hunt, once we'll known as a
representative in congress. The late
William Morris Hunt, the distinguished
painter, was his brother. In 1913 he &C
companied his mother to Europe and
entered a school in Geneva, where he
began the study of architecture under
Samuel Barrier. He next went to
Paris and became a pupil of Hector
LIE Feul and student at the Ecole des
Deau Arts. Upon seaving there he
Travelled through Asia Minor and ElI-
rope, returning to Paris in 1849, when
he received from the French govern
ment the appointment of Inspector des
TraVauX, in connection with a new
building uniting the TuillierieS to the
Louvre. LIE Feul, having in the means
time succeeded Visconti as architect,
placed his pupil in charge of the Pa
V1lion de la Bibliatheque, opposite the
PalaiS Royale, and in this position
young Hunt had the honor of making,
under La Feul, all the studies and
drawing for the pavilion. Mr.. Hunt
returned to the United States in 1855.
Immediately on his arrival here he
was engaged to assist the late Thomas
U. Walter in preparing plans for the
completion of the capitol at Washing
ton. After six months of indefatigable
and invaluable serSice in this capacity,
he came to this city and began the
career of incessant activity which made
him years ago the acknowledged dean
of the architectural brotherhood of this
country and second only to the lament
ed Richardson as an original and per-
feet artist.
SOME OF HIS WARK.
He took a prominent part in found
ing the American Institute of Archi-
tects, an institution which now en-
braces in its membership nearly all
the reputable architects of the coun-
try. He also opened an atelier for stu
dents similar to those which -four
ished in Paris. The structures de-
signed by Mr.. Hunt are found in all
the principal cities of the country.
Among those in this city are the Lenox
library, the first buildings of the Pres
byterian hospital and the residence of
William K. Vanderbilt. The theology
cal library and the Vanguard chapel
at Princeton; the Divinity building and
the Scroll and Keys society building at
Yale college; the Vanderbilt mauso-
leum on Staten Island; the monument
consecrating the triumphant close of
the revolutionary war at Yorktown,
Va; the pedestal of the statue of LID.
erty at Bedloe's Island, and a number
of the finest villas at Newport are his.
No American architect has had such
recognition abroad as had Mr.. Hunt.
He was appointed a member of the
jury of fine arts at the International
exhibition at Paris in 1887; was made a
knight of the Legion of Honor in 1882,
and was elected a member of the in
stitute of France. He was also a
member of the Society of French Ar
chitecture, of the Society Of Architects
and Engineers at Vienna, and of the
Society of st. Lucinrogin. He was a
corresponding member OF the Society
of British Architects, and in 1893 re-
ceived from the institute the gold med
al presented annually by Queen Vic
toria to the architect or archeologist
adjudged to have done most for the
history or practice of architecture. In
his own country Mr.. Hunt has been
highly appreciated. At the Philadel-
phia and Chicago expositions he was
member of the juries which decided
questions relating to the fine arts.