Background
Ricahard H. Hunt was born in 1862 in Pans, France.
Ricahard H. Hunt was born in 1862 in Pans, France.
He studied professionally at the Massachusetts Institute or and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Trained in draftmanship under the elder Hunt, Richard became his associate and practiced jointly with him until he passed away in 1896. A few years later in 1901, a partnership was formed between Richard Hunt and his younger brother Joseph and continued through the many years of his successful career. One of their early works was the completion of drawings left by R M. Hunt for the East Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, and m the years that followed Hunt & Hunt were architects of a number of educational buildings including units of two southern colleges, Kissam Hall at Vanderbilt University, and Quintard and Hoffman Halls at Suwanee University. The brothers were perhaps more widely known as designers of many distinguished country and urban residences for such prominent personages of the early twentieth century, as the Vanderbilts, George and William, Howard Gould, and the O. H. Belmont's.
Throughout his active years Mr. Hunt was a member, and one-time president, of the Architectural League of New York, the New York Chapter of the A. I. A. (elected to Institute Fellowship in 1891), and the Beaux Arts Society of Architects, also belonged to many clubs and social organizaions.