Richard upjohn biography

UPJOHN, Richard (1802-1878) of New York City was among the most talented ecclesiastical architects in the United States during the nineteenth century.

Born at Shaftesbury, England on 22 January 1802 he served an apprenticeship to a builder and cabinet maker there and emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1829. In 1833 he moved to Boston and it was here that he developed designs for St.

John's Church, Bangor, Maine (1835-36) the first of what was to become a series of important landmarks of the American Gothic Revival style. His best known ecclesiastical design is undoubtedly that for Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, New York City (1841-46), a commission which justly precipitated his emergence as one of the leading figures of American architecture by 1850.

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In Canada, Upjohn designed an elaborate Italianate mansion and estate for Samuel Zimmerman, Ferry Street at Clifton Hill, NIAGARA FALLS, ONT., (1856; demol. 1938; gatehouses demol. 1955; 1965). This