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1802–78, American architect,
b. England. He came to the United States in 1829. A skilled cabinetmaker
and draftsman, he lived first in Manlius, N.Y., and then in New Bedford,
Mass., where he set himself up as an architect. His first commissions were
private houses in Bangor, Maine (1833–36). He had executed St. John's
Church, Bangor (1836–39), and several smaller commissions when in 1839
he was engaged to rebuild Trinity Church, New York City. Moving to New
York, he established an office there. The new Trinity Church (1846) was
carefully modeled on English examples and inaugurated a new phase in the
Gothic revival. Upjohn designed the old St. Thomas's Church in New York
City (later burned), several churches in Brooklyn, the chapel of Bowdoin
College, smaller Gothic churches, and many residences. He was a founder of
the American Institute of Architects and its first president (1857–76).
His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, 1828–1903, architect of the
Connecticut State Capitol, was associated with his father.
See E. M. Upjohn, Richard Upjohn, Architect and Churchman (1939). |
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