See also:CHARLES See also:BULFINCH (1763-1844)
, See also:American architect, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 8th of See also:August 1763, the son of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Bulfinch, a prominent and wealthy physician
.
He was educated at the Boston Latin school and at Harvard, where he. graduated in 1781, and after several years of travel and study in See also:Europe, settled in 1787 in Boston, where he was the first to practise as a professional architect
.
Among his See also:early
See also:Works were the old Federal See also:Street See also:theatre (1793), the first See also:play See also:house in New See also:England, and the " new " See also:State House (1798)
.
For more than twenty-five years he was the most active architect in Boston, and at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time took a leading See also:part in the public See also:life of the See also:city
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As chairman of the See also:board of selectmen for twenty-one years (1797-1818), an important position which made him practically See also:chief See also:magistrate, he exerted a strong See also:influence in modernizing Boston; in providing for new systems of drainage and street-See also:lighting, in reorganizing the See also:police and See also:fire departments, and in straightening and widening the streets
.
He was one of the promoters in 1787 of the voyage of the See also:ship " See also:Columbia," which under command of See also:Captain See also:Robert See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray (1755-1806) was the first to carry the American See also:flag See also:round the See also:world
.
In 1818 Bulfinch succeeded B
.
H
.
See also:Latrobe (1 764-1820) as architect of the See also:National Capitol at See also:Washington
.
He completed the unfinished wings and central portion, constructing the rotunda from plans of his own after suggestions of his predecessor, and designed the new western approach and See also:portico
.
In 183o he returned to Boston, where he died on the 15th of See also:April 1844
.
Bulfinch's See also:work was marked by sincerity, simplicity, refinement of See also:taste and an entire freedom from affectation, and it greatly influenced American See also:architecture in the early formative See also:period
.
His son, See also:Stephen See also:Greenleaf Bulfinch (18og-1870), was a well-known Unitarian clergyman and author
.
See The Life and Letters of See also:Charles Bulfinch (Boston, 1896), edited by his See also:grand-daughter, and The Architects of ,the American Capitol," by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Q
.
See also:Howard, in The See also:International See also:Review, vol.' i
.
(New See also:York, 1874)
.
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