Hunt, Richard Morris (1827–1895)

US architect, born at Brattleborough, Vermont. He was the first American to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1854 he was put in charge of the buildings connecting the Tuileries with the Louvre, and designed the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque. Returning to New York in 1855, he designed the Lennox Library, the Stuyvesant and Tribune buildings (1873), and also public buildings in Princeton and Yale. He did much to raise the international reputation of American architecture, and helped to found the American Institute of Architects.

He obtained the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for his Administration Building at the Chicago Exhibition (1893).