John McComb Jr. (1763 – 1853) was an American architect who designed many landmarks in the 18th and 19th centuries. Between 1790 and 1825, McComb was New York city's leading architect. John McComb Jr. was born on October 17, 1763 in New York City. In 1783, McComb began working with his father, John McComb Sr., a well known architect and surveyor. In 1790, he began working independently. McComb is interred at

Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/ Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blo ...

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York.

Work

* Old

Cape Henry Light The Cape Henry Lighthouses are a pair of lighthouses at Cape Henry, the landform marking the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of Virginia. The location has long been important for the large amount of ocean-going shipping tra ...

(1792), first lighthouse totally authorized by the federal government. *

Montauk Point Lighthouse The Montauk Point Light, or Montauk Point Lighthouse, is a lighthouse located adjacent to Montauk Point State Park, at the easternmost point of Long Island, in the hamlet of Montauk in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York. The ...

(1796) * Station Eatons Neck Lighthouse (1798) *

Gracie Mansion Archibald Gracie Mansion (commonly called Gracie Mansion) is the official residence of the Mayor of New York City. Built in 1799, it is located in Carl Schurz Park, at East End Avenue and 88th Street in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. ...

(1799) - Document can be downloaded from https://www.nps.gov/hagr/learn/news/upload/Hamilton-Grange_Timeline.doc * St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (1799) * Hamilton Grange (1802) * New York City Hall (1803)Jeff Richman,
John McComb: Old New York Architect
Green-Wood Discovery. March 13, 2013. *

St. John's Chapel (New York City) St. John's Chapel belonged to the Episcopal parish of Trinity Church in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City. History It was constructed in 1803 to designs by John McComb Jr. and his brother Isaac McComb on Varick Street, facing St. John's ...

(1803, demolished 1918) *

Old Queens Old Queens is the oldest extant building at Rutgers University and is the symbolic heart of the university's campus in New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States. Rutgers, the eighth-oldest college in the United States, wa ...

building at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

(1808) *

Castle Clinton Castle Clinton (also known as Fort Clinton and Castle Garden) is a circular sandstone fort within Battery Park at the southern end of Manhattan in New York City. Built from 1808 to 1811, it was the first American immigration station, predating ...

(1808) * Alexander Hall,

Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a private school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1812 under the auspices of Archibald Alexander, the General Assembly of t ...

(1815)

Gallery

File:Montauk Point Lighthouse.jpg,

(1796) File:New York City Hall exterior, October 2016.jpg, New York City Hall (1803) File:Old Queens, New Brunswick, NJ - looking north, 2014.jpg,

(1808) File:Alexander Hall (Princeton Theological Seminary).jpg, Alexander Hall,

(1815)

References

External links

The John McComb Architectural Drawings at the New York Historical Society
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