Editing Richard Upjohn (section)

==Life and career==
Richard Upjohn was born in [[Shaftesbury]], [[England]], where he was apprenticed to a builder and cabinet-maker. He eventually became a master-mechanic. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1829. They initially settled in [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] and then moved on to [[Boston]] in 1833, where he worked in architectural design.<ref name=":0" /> He became a [[Naturalization|naturalized]] [[Citizenship in the United States|citizen of the United States]] in 1836.<ref name="romanticera">{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850, Volume 2 |last=Murray |first=Christopher John |year=2004 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |location=New York & London |isbn=1-57958-422-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofro002unse_v8y9/page/1175 1175] |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofro002unse_v8y9/page/1175 }}</ref> His first major project was for the entrances to the [[Boston Common]], the town's central park and his first church would be St. John's Episcopal Church in [[Bangor, Maine]]. He had relocated to [[History of New York City|New York City]] by 1839, where he worked on alterations to the famed [[Trinity Church (Manhattan)|Trinity Church]] on [[Wall Street]] in [[Lower Manhattan]]. The alterations were later abandoned and he was commissioned to design a new church, completed in 1846, and still extant today. He published his extremely influential book, ''"Upjohn's rural architecture: Designs, working drawings and specifications for a wooden church, and other rural structures"'', in 1852. The designs in this publication were widely used across the country by builders, with many examples remaining.<ref name="DOUMATO"/>

Upjohn, along with 13 other architects, co-founded the [[American Institute of Architects]] on February 23, 1857. He served as president of that organization from 1857 to 1876, being succeeded by [[Thomas U. Walter|Thomas Ustick Walter]], fourth [[Architect of the Capitol]]. He went on the design many buildings in a variety of styles. He died at his home in [[Garrison, New York]] in 1878. Architectural drawings and papers by Upjohn and other family members are held by the Drawings and Archives Department of the [[Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library]] at [[Columbia University]], in [[New York City]], also by the [[New York Public Library]]'s Humanities and Social Sciences Library, in the Manuscripts and Archives division, and by the [[Library of Congress]], Prints & Photographs Division on [[Capitol Hill]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=":0" />

He died on 16 August 1878 in [[Putnam County, New York]] of [[cerebral softening]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Richard Upjohn, Architect |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1878/08/18/80725893.pdf |quote= Richard Upjohn, one of the oldest and most prominent church architects of this country, died on Friday, in the seventy-seventh year of his ago. ...  |work=[[New York Times]] |date=16 August 1878 |access-date=2008-07-17 }}</ref>