Samuel McIntire

Samuel McIntire (* January 16, 1757 in Salem, Massachusetts, † February 6, 1811, ibid ) was an American architect and artist.

Born in Salem in the colony of Massachusetts, he began his career as a carver and wood sculptor. After his marriage to Elizabeth Field on October 10, 1778, he built a simple house with attached workshop, which was completed in 1786 at the Summer Street.

Since the beginning of the eighties of the 18th century, the work McIntires began as an architect for the merchant Elias Hasket Derby, for which he appropriated the then preferred Palladian from books. After a short time he was known in New England as a builder of elegant residences. For the construction of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. he gave 1792 a draft. From about 1795 he took over for his designs increasingly the Federal style, the architects such as Charles Bulfinch had derived as a special character from an American Georgian architecture.

All designed by McIntire public buildings were located in Salem, also designed by him houses were located largely in the state of Massachusetts. Together with his brothers Joseph Angier and in 1799 he founded a company that carried out his designs; Samuel drew next to the houses also essential parts of the decoration and supervised its execution.

Typical of the designs are McIntires the room layout with four smaller rooms around a central, larger hall and the construction with three floors.

Samuel McIntire was also famous as a wood sculptor, his busts of Voltaire and John Winthrop are now in the possession of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester (Massachusetts ).

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• Architect of the Palladian
• Architect of the Federal-style
• Architect ( United States)
• Sculptor (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1757
• Died in 1811
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