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John Russell Pope
B. 1874 New York City
D. 1937 New York City

 

John Russell Pope, the son of a successful portrait painter, studied at The College of the City of New York and received his Ph.D.

in 1894 from the School of Mines, Columbia University. A year later he simultaneously won the McKim fellowship and the first fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. He was one of the first architectural students to master the use of large format camera, with glass negatives.

After 18 months in Rome Pope entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  He returned to New York in 1900 and after three years with the firm of Bruce Price, began his own practice. 

 

For the next 34 years Pope consistently produced “dignified architecture of highly refined and restrained classicism.”  He was a consulting architect for many museums and colleges.  Pope’s original plan for the future growth of Yale University (sig