Background
Baker, Paul Raymond was born on September 28, 1927 in Everett, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Loren Robbins and Alma Irene (Ball) Baker.
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Richard Morris Hunt is the definitive biography of the man who was widely regarded by his contemporaries as the dean of American architects and who was a seminal figure in establishing architecture as a profession in the United States. Covering all of Hunt's major commissions -- including his famous fifth Avenue mansions and Newport "cottages" -- the book provides a fresh look at the artistic achievements of America's Gilded Age.Paul Baker's reassessment of Hunt's works naturally covers his most famous buildings, such as The Breakers and Marble House in Newport, Biltmore House in North Carolina, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the base for the Statue of Liberty. But it also reveals Hunt's designs for houses on a more intimate scale, public buildings and monuments, and commercial structures.
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Baker, Paul Raymond was born on September 28, 1927 in Everett, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Loren Robbins and Alma Irene (Ball) Baker.
AB, Stanford University, 1949. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1960.
Staff editor Encyclopedia Americana, New York City, 1952-1955. Instructor, assistant professor California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1960-1963. Lecturer University California-Riverside, 1963-1964, University Oregon, Eugene, 1964-1965.
Associate professor, then professor history New York University, New York City, 1965-1999, emeritus professor, since 1999, director American civilization program, 1972-1992. Member media panel National Endowment of the Humanities, 1978. Visiting schlar American Academy in Rome, 1959.
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Member Glen Ridge History Preservation Commission, 1994-1996. Member American Studies Association (president metropolitan New York chapter 1968-1969, Mary C. Turpie prize for outstanding contributions to teaching advisement and program development 1994), Organization American Historians, Phi Beta Kappa (vice president, president Beta of New York 1966-1970).
Married Elizabeth O. Kemp, February 11, 1972. 1 daughter, Alice Elizabeth.