1818–95, American architect,
b. New York City, grad. Columbia, 1836. His design for Grace Church
(1843–46) in New York City was followed by that for St. Patrick's
Cathedral; he was chosen as architect for the cathedral in 1853, and it
was dedicated in 1879, the most ambitious essay in Gothic that the revival
of the style produced. In Washington he built the original Corcoran
Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution. Other of his works were the first
building of Vassar College and the distribution reservoir for the Croton
Aqueduct in New York.