Peter Bent Brigham Building

Year
1888
Style
Richardsonian Romanesque
City
Boston, MA
Collection
richardson romanesque
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Built in 1888 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the Peter Bent Brigham Building carries the name of the Boston hospital benefactor and is tied to the city's medical history downtown.

the style

The building was raised in the Richardsonian Romanesque idiom, the round-arched, heavy masonry style named for and popularized by H. H. Richardson that dominated American institutional architecture in the 1880s.

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