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Henry Wise Hobson II (May 16, 1891 - February 10, 1983), was the bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. When he was consecrated at the age of 38 in 1929, he was the youngest Episcopal bishop in the United States, and at his death, he was the oldest bishop in the Episcopal Church. He was also involved with the founding of Forward Movement Publications at the Episcopal Church.
He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1910 and Yale University in 1914. He was an officer in the infantry during World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism in France, after being wounded twice. After the war he entered the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1920. He was then the rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester, MA. In 1930 Hobson moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to become Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. His son Henry Wise Hobson III married Elizabeth Mary Balch in 1941. His daughter Margery Thayer Hobson married Gerard Thomas on February 13, 1955. Henry Wise Hobson died on February 10, 1983.
Henry Hobson Richardson (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was a prominent American architect who designed buildings in Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and other cities. The style he popularized is named for him: Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture".
Richardson was born at the Priestley Plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and spent part of his childhood in New Orleans, where his family lived on Julia Row in a red brick house designed by the architect Alexander T. Wood. He was the great-grandson of inventor and philosopher Joseph Priestley, who is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen.
Richardson went on to study at Harvard College and Tulane University. Initially, he was interested in civil engineering, but shifted to architecture, which led him to go to Paris in 1860 to attend the famed École des Beaux Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules André. He was only the second U.S. citizen to attend the École's architectural division—Richard Morris Hunt was the first—and the school was to play an increasingly important role in training Americans in the following decades.
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Short Film: Grays (Henry Hobson, 2013) http://09couplandw.wordpress.com
The architectural heritage of the Capital Region is rich and varied.