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William Appleton Potter (December 10, 1842 – February 19, 1909) was an American architect who designed numerous buildings for Princeton University, as well as municipal offices and churches. He served as a Supervising Architect of the Treasury from 1874 to 1877. == Biography == Born in 1842 in Schenectady, New York, Potter grew up in Philadelphia and attended Union College. Potter was the son of Bishop Alonzo Potter and had eight brothers, including: * Clarkson Nott Potter (1825–1882), Democratic member of the House of Representatives after the Civil War * Howard Potter (1826–1897) Banker, Senior Partner in Brown Shipley * Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), United States General in the Civil War * Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908), succeeded Horatio Potter as Bishop of New York in 1887 * Eliphalet Nott Potter (1836–1901), professor and president of Union College and Hobart College * Potter's half-brother Edward Tuckerman Potter (1831–1904), architect who designed the Nott Memorial at Union College He became an assistant professor at Columbia College, where he taught chemistry for a year, after which he spent another year touring France. His collegiate background distinguished him from most architects of the first half of the 19th-century, who received their training through apprenticeship in the building trades and sometimes in the offices of practicing architects. The apprenticeship tradition was still strong, however, and Potter received his professional training first in the New York office of George B. Post, and then in his half-brother's office at Schenectady.〔(August 1989) Princeton History, Number 8 http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Otherdocs/history.html〕 Potter died February 19, 1909. Among his apprentices was the architect James Brown Lord. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Appleton Potter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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