Alfred Waterhouse

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Alfred Waterhouse
Birthday	Monday, July 19, 1830
Birthplace	Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died	Tuesday, August 22, 1905
Nationality	British

Waterhouse, Alfred,

1830–1905, English architect. He won competitions for the Manchester assize court (1859) and the Manchester city hall (1868). This work placed him in the forefront of the Victorian Gothic revival. His most important work, the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, in a modified Romanesque style, was notable for its revival of the use of terra-cotta. Waterhouse also executed important buildings for Balliol College, Oxford; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Prudential Assurance Company, Holborn, London; and the City and Guilds College, South Kensington (1881).

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