Richard Upjohn

Architect, born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, S England, UK. Apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, he emigrated in 1829 and became an architect in Boston (1934–8). His first and best-known major building was Trinity Church, New York City (1839–46), which definitively linked the Protestant Episcopal Church with the Gothic Revival style. He designed many residences and public buildings, and his later ecclesiastical architecture incorporated Romanesque and Italianate forms. He was a founder and first president (1857–76) of the American Institute of Architects.

Richard Upjohn (1802 - 1878) was a U.S. architect. Works include St. Mary's Episcopal church in Burlington, New Jersey, The Church of the Ascension and Trinity Church in New York City, Kingscote in Newport, RI, the former Bristol Academy building (now home to the OCHS) in Taunton, MA, and St. John Chrysotum Church in Delafield, WI.

Architectural drawings and papers by Upjohn and other family members are held by the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, and by New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives division.