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Architecture

Introduction

An American legacy in the history of American architect who is responsible for designing some of the most beautiful building in America is Samuel McIntyre. McIntyre was born on January 16th in the year 1757 and died after living only fifty four years of his life. He died on February 6th in the year 1811. He was famously known for his craftsmanship especially the one in Chestnut Street District, which are the earliest architects of the United States.

Biography

Samuel McIntyre is the main example of Federal Style Architecture. He was born in Salem in Massachusetts. His parents, Joseph McIntyre and Sarah; Samuel became a wood carver at a young age because of his family trade. This wood carving practice soon built into architecture. On October 10th in the year 1778, he was married to Elizabeth Field and fathered a son. He had built a small, plain home and a workshop on Summer Street in the year 1786.

Samuel McIntyre started working Salem in the year 1780; he was hired as a pre-eminent merchant and by the first American millionaire, Elias Hasket Derby. Samuel McIntyre renovated and remodeled Hasket Derby's many houses. McIntyre was a self learner and he learned Palladian Style of architecture from different books and this helped him in building a good reputation in the city for being an excellent designer of elegant homes. His popularity built among the elite and soon he had many homes at his disposal for renovations and redesigning. Later in the year 1792, he enrolled himself in a competition for the United States Capitol.

After 1797, Samuel McIntyre started to work in the style of the famous Boston architect Charles Bulfinch who was famously known as his fashionable Scottish architect which was also neoclassical. While Bulfinch built across the East Coast ...