The New International Encyclopædia/Van Brunt, Henry

VAN BRUNT, Henry (1832-1903). An American architect, born in Boston, Mass. He graduated at Harvard in 1854, and during the Civil War served for two years as military secretary on the staff of the admiral commanding the North Atlantic Squadron. Among the more important buildings of which he was the architect are Memorial Hall at Harvard, the library building of the University of Michigan, the First Church in Boston, and the Electricity Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. Among his writings are Greek Lines and Other Architectural Essays (1893), and a translation of Viollet-le-Duc's Discourses on Architecture.