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About William Strickland
William Strickland was a noted American architect and civil engineer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin Latrobe and mentor to Thomas Ustick Walter, Strickland helped establish the Greek Revival movement in the United States. A pioneering engineer, he wrote a seminal book on railroad construction, helped build several early American railroads, and designed the first ocean breakwater in the Western Hemisphere. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1820.
Everything about William Strickland →- Occupation
- architect, civil engineer, painter, engraver
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 1788
- Died
- 1854, April 6, 1854, April 7, 1854