Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture." [1]

H.H. Richardson was an American architect, the initiator of the Romanesque revival in the United States and a pioneer figure in the development of an indigenous, modern American style of architecture.

Sep 29, 2017 · Richardsonian Romanesque describes the revival and alteration of Romanesque architecture by Henry Hobson Richardson in the United States. The style is characterized by its fusion of French,...

Jul 3, 2019 · Famous for designing massive stone buildings with semicircular "Roman" arches, Henry Hobson Richardson developed a late Victorian style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque.

Henry Hobson Richardson, whose Richardson Romanesque buildings—inspired by 11th and 12th-century structures in Southern France, Italy, and Spain—is a cornerstone of yankee architecture.

Henry Hobson Richardson, or better known as H. H. Richardson, was born on September 29, 1838 in St. James Parish, Louisiana. After spending his youth in both Louisiana and New Orleans, Richardson initially attended Harvard University to study Civil Engineering.

Henry Hobson Richardson (whose office after 1874 was located in Brookline, Mass.) provided a scale that was public, but at the same time mitigated the "public" aspects by inserting potent domestic references familiar to the New England consciousness.

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), a great-grandson on his mother's side of Joseph Priestley (the discoverer of oxygen), was born in Louisiana on September 29, 1838. He spent his early life on the Priestley plantation and in New Orleans.

Born in Louisiana, Henry Hobson Richardson sought architectural education at Harvard College and later at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Choosing to remain in France during the Civil War, Richardson returned to the United States in 1865 and set up an office in New York.

On returning to the States in 1865 he established himself as an architect, first in New York and then in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was broadly inspired by the architecture of the Middle Ages, particularly the Romanesque style of the 11th and 12th centuries common in the South of France.