HUNT, RICHARD MORRIS (1828-1895), American ar chitect, was born in Brattleboro (Vt.) on Oct. 31, 1828. He studied in Europe (1843-54), mainly in the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Paris, and in 1854 was appointed inspector of works on the buildings connecting the Tuileries with the Louvre. Under Hector Lefuel he designed the Pavillon de la Bibliotheque, opposite the Palais Royal. In 1855 he returned to New York, and was em ployed on the extension of the Capitol at Washington. He de signed the Lenox library (now torn down) and the Tribune build ings in New York; the Theological library, and Marquand chapel at Princeton ; the Divinity college and the Scroll and Key building at Yale; the Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten island, and the York town monument. For the administration building at the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 Hunt received the gold medal of the Institute of British Architects. Among the most noteworthy of his domestic buildings were the residences of W. K. Vanderbilt and Henry G. Marquand in New York city ; George W. Vanderbilt's country house at Biltmore, and several of the large "cottages" at Newport (R.I.), including "Marble House" and "The Breakers." Hunt was the leader of a school that has established in the United States the manner and the traditions of the Beaux Arts. He took a prominent part in the founding of the American Institute of Architects, and from 1888 was its president. His talent was eminently practical ; and he was almost equally suc cessful in the ornate style of the early Renaissance in France, in the picturesque style of his comfortable villas, and the monu mental style of the Lenox library. There is a beautiful memorial to Hunt in the wall of Central Park, opposite the site of the old Lenox library building, from designs by Daniel C. French and Bruce Price. He died on July 31, 1895.