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Upjohn, Richard
architect; b. Jan. 22, 1802, in Shaftesbury, England; d. Aug. 16, 1878.
He was apprenticed to a builder and cabinetmaker in 1829, came to the United States, and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He went to Boston in 1833 and assisted in the construction of the city Court House. In 1839 he went to New York to take charge of the proposed alterations in the old Trinity Church. The scheme was abandoned, and Upjohn designed and constructed the present Trinity church, which was finished in 1846. He built also S. Thomas's church, Trinity Building, the Corn Exchange Bank, and other buildings in New York, and several churches in Brooklyn, and other buildings. He was president of the American Institute of Architects from 1857 to 1876.
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