1. Bruce Price was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style.
11 Facts About Bruce Price
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Bruce Price studied for a short time at Princeton University.
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Bruce Price settled in New York City in 1877, where he worked on a series of domestic projects.
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The striking buildings Price designed there, with their severe geometry, compact massing and axial plans, were highly influential in the architectural profession.
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Bruce Price collaborated with sculptor Daniel Chester French on the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial in Central Park.
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Bruce Price designed a lecture hall and a dormitory at Yale University.
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Bruce Price invented, patented, and built the parlor bay-window cars for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad.
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Bruce Price designed the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City for the Canadian Pacific, as well as the first Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, and many other hotels and stations.
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Bruce Price was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and belonged to the Architectural League of New York.
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In 1871, Bruce Price married Josephine Lee, the daughter of a Wilkes-Barre coal baron.
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Bruce Price is buried, along with his wife and son, in Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.