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Ithiel Town
Memorial plaque to Town, Center Church on the Green, New Haven
Born(1784-10-03)October 3, 1784
Thompson, Connecticut
DiedJune 13, 1844(1844-06-13) (aged 59)
New Haven, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
AwardsNational Academy of Design; Yale honorary degree
PracticeTown and Davis
BuildingsCenter Church
Trinity Church
Wadsworth Atheneum
DesignLattice truss bridge
Samuel Russell House, Middletown, Connecticut (with David Hoadley)
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (with A. J. Davis)

Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the first half of the 19th century. His work, in the Federal and revivalist Greek and Gothic revival architectural styles, was influential and widely copied.

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Hartford. The most recent state house was erected in 1837, designed by Ithiel Town in a Greek Revival style. Ultimately, Hartford was declared the sole...

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truss extending above and below the roadbed. American architect Ithiel Town designed Town's Lattice Truss as an alternative to heavy-timber bridges. His...

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Trinity Church on the Green

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churches on the New Haven Green. This landmark building was designed by Ithiel Town in 1813, built between 1814 and 1815, and consecrated in 1816. It was...

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National Academy of Design

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Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction...

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Bowery Theatre

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Federal architecture

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Alexander Parris William Strickland Martin E. Thompson William Thornton Ithiel Town Ammi B. Young Modern reassessment of the American architecture of the...

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Salt Lake Tabernacle

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was constructed in the lattice-truss arch system, which was devised by Ithiel Town and is held together by dowels and wedges. The building has a sandstone...

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Indiana Statehouse

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Leake and Watts Services

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cathedral is restoring Leake & Watts, renamed the Town Building in honor of its architect, Ithiel Town. "Leake Heirs Sue The State. Seek to Recover $86...

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Gothic Revival architecture

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Asa Gray House

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Yale New Haven Hospital

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called the State Hospital, was designed by prominent New Haven architect Ithiel Town and cost US$13,000. In 1862, the State Hospital was converted to a military...

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from the Georgian style and became a uniquely American genre. In 1813, Ithiel Town designed the first Gothic-style church in North America, Trinity Church...

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Gothic Revival building was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and Ithiel Town. The Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the nation. It is listed...

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George Baldwin House

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its distinctive Greek Revival design has been attributed to architect Ithiel Town. Documentation of the house was compiled after 1933. The house was listed...

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Asher Benjamin

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including Ithiel Town and Ammi B. Young, freely assimilated his plans, as did innumerable carpenters. Indeed, the charm of many early New England towns owes...

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Connecticut State Capitol

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and when sitting in New Haven, in a State House designed in 1827 by Ithiel Town. After the Civil War, the complications of this plan began to be evident...

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