Learn about the extensive visual materials resource collection assembled by Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), an influential American architect and educator, through the Hunt research guide.
The Hunt Collection overview outlines the more than 15,000 drawings, photographs, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, rare books, and three-dimensional objects collected by Richard Morris Hunt and his family—now in the Prints & Photographs Division of Library of Congress. The section "Architectural Work of Hunt and His Office" lists more than 245 architecture and design projects in convenient, downloadable documents. The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt section summarizes the new published biography by Sam Watters and provides links to the author's extended footnotes to assist further research into nineteenth-century American architecture and culture.
