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Henry Hobson Richardson

1838 - 1886

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Hobson Richardson has received more than 405,329 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Hobson Richardson is the 474th most popular architect (down from 419th in 2019), the 8,981st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,503rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Architect.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Henry Hobson Richardson ranks 474 out of 518. Before him are Julia Morgan, Cass Gilbert, Wivi Lönn, Richard Knill Freeman, Mikhail Zemtsov, and Otto Bartning. After him are James Wyatt, William Burges, Robert Smirke, Giles Gilbert Scott, James Gibbs, and Léon Krier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Henry Hobson Richardson ranks 101. Before him are Marc Delafontaine, Oskar Gripenberg, John Morley, Octavia Hill, John Wanamaker, and Margaret E. Knight. After him are Joseph F. Smith, Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal, and Walter Buller. Among people deceased in 1886, Henry Hobson Richardson ranks 56. Before him are Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Richard Maack, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Samuel J. Tilden, Théodore Aubanel, and Randolph Caldecott. After him are Charles Francis Adams Sr., Rebecca Solomon, David Rice Atchison, and Horatio Seymour.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Hobson Richardson ranks 8,981 out of 20,380. Before him are Osamu Hayaishi (1920), Anthony Wayne (1745), Bruce Abbott (1954), Robert Ripley (1890), Jon Tenney (1961), and Christopher Connelly (1941). After him are Rogers Hornsby (1896), Claire McDowell (1877), Clarence White (1944), William D'Amico (1910), Cal Tjader (1925), and R. B. Kitaj (1932).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Henry Hobson Richardson ranks 28. Before him are Daniel Burnham (1846), Walter Burley Griffin (1876), John Hejduk (1929), Robert Moses (1888), Julia Morgan (1872), and Cass Gilbert (1859). After him are Robert A. M. Stern (1939), Richard Morris Hunt (1827), Alfred Mosher Butts (1899), John Russell Pope (1874), Maya Lin (1959), and Max Abramovitz (1908).

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