Joseph Northrup
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Joseph Northrup was an American architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

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Among many works is his own Châteauesque
Châteauesque
Châteauesque is one of several terms, including Francis I style, and, in Canada, the Château Style, that refer to a revival architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental French country homes built in the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the...

 house at 475 Whitney Avenue, in the Whitney Avenue Historic District
Whitney Avenue Historic District
__notoc__The Whitney Avenue Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a district which included 1,084 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989....

 of New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

. That building, built in 1896, is a "knowledgeable variant of the Chateauesque mansions of Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt
Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...

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Other works are:
  • Taylor Memorial Library
    Taylor Memorial Library
    The Taylor Memorial Library, also known as Taylor Library or Old Library, in Milford, Connecticut was built in 1894. It is a Richardsonian Romanesque building designed by Joseph W. Northrup. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.It follows, but departs from, H. H....

    , 5 Broad St. Milford, Connecticut
  • Annex building of Maplewood School
    Maplewood School
    The Maplewood School, also known as Grammar School No. 5, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was built in 1893, and was designed by Longstaff & Hurd. The school was enlarged later. And an annex building designed by architect Joseph Northrup was added later...

    , 434 Maplewood Ave., Bridgeport, Connecticut
  • Island Bridge, a bridge, 1921, in Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut. It's a single-span, semi-elliptical, granite block bridge to Bunnell Island, in the park
  • one or more properties in New Milford Center Historic District, Bennett and Elm Sts., Center Cemetery, East, S. Main, Mill, and Railroad Sts. New Milford, Connecticut
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