H.H. Richardson, series 6:
Richardson's Influence on Public Architecture in the Gilded Age

Here are a few buildings in the Richardsonian style, indicating the enormous influence that Richardson's designs had at the time.  All four derive closely from the Alleghany county courthouse (designed 1884). 


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Old City Hall, Toronto, Ontario
(designed 1886-1889, completed 1899; this illustration and more information is available by clicking here.)

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Old Postoffice, Washington, D.C.
(designed 1891, completed 1899)


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Gage County Courthouse, Beatrice, Nebraska
(completed 1892)



Riley County Courthouse, Manhattan, Kansas
(completed 1906)

Photographs © Robert W. Cherny. I took the photograph of the Washington postoffice on site in August 2000, that of the Gage County Courthouse on site in July 2001, and that of the Riley County Courthouse in March 2004.   I scanned the first two and manipulated them for use on this website.  Feel free to use them for non-commercial educational purposes.  If you want to use them for commercial uses or for-profit educational uses, you must request permission:   <cherny@sfsu.edu>.