Martin E. Thompson
Martin Euclid Thompson (1786–1877) was an American architect and artist prolific in nineteenth-century New York City, and a co-founder of the National Academy of Design. Originally trained as a carpenter, he had been a partner of Ithiel Town and went on to become one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. He designed the New York State Militia's Arsenal, which in the 1850s became part of Central Park.
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Martin E. Thompson
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- Name
- Martin Euclid Thompson
- Born
- 1786
- Died
- 1877
- Known for
- Architect
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- engineer and architect.
- Movements
- Greek Revival architecture.
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Martin Euclid Thompson (1786–1877) was an American architect and artist prolific in nineteenth-century New York City, and a co-founder of the National Academy of Design. Originally trained as a carpenter, he had been a partner of Ithiel Town and went on to become one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. He designed the New York State Militia's Arsenal, which in the 1850s became part of Central Park.
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Martin E. Thompson was an architect and engineer, of American nationality. The architect was associated with Greek Revival architecture.
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Thompson's symmetrical structure of brick in English bond, with headers every fifth course, presents a central block in the manner of a fortified gatehouse flanked by half-octagonal towers. The carpentry doorframe speaks of its purpose with an American eagle displayed between stacks of cannonballs over the door, and crossed sabers and stacked pikes represented in flanking panels.
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• Name — Martin Euclid Thompson • Born — 1786 • Died — 1877 • Known for — Architect • Illustration — The Central Park Arsenal in 1914
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• Second Branch Bank of the United States (1824), now preserved as a facade in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's main building • Merchants Exchange Building (New York City), destroyed in the Great Fire of New York, December 1835. • Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn (1830–38) • His Greek Revival Colles Mansion (1838), Morristown, New Jersey, is now The Kellogg Club • The Admiral's House (Governor's Island) (1843), Governors Island, New York City, landmarked July 24, 1972. • The Arsenal (1847–1851), 830 Fifth Avenue, New York City
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