Charles Bulfinch
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American architect
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice. Life Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built the intermediate United States Capitol rotunda and dome. His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, and as the origin of a distinctive Federal style of classical domes, columns, and ornament that dominated early 19th-century American architecture.
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