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 in
Brooklyn, New York.
Work
* Old
Cape Henry Light (1792), first lighthouse totally authorized by the federal government.
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Montauk Point Lighthouse (1796)
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Station Eatons Neck
Coast Guard Station Eatons Neck is a United States Coast Guard station located on the northern tip of Eatons Neck on Long Island New York. It is the oldest Coast Guard Station in New York and the fourth oldest in the United States. It was founded ...
Lighthouse (1798)
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Gracie Mansion (1799)
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St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at 131 East 10th Street, at the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been ...
(1799)
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Hamilton Grange
Hamilton Grange National Memorial, also known as The Grange or the Hamilton Grange Mansion, is a National Park Service site in St. Nicholas Park, Manhattan, New York City, that preserves the relocated home of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilt ...
(1802)
[
* ]New York City Hall
New York City Hall is the Government of New York City, seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center, Manhattan, Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, Park R ...
(1803)[Jeff Richman,]
John McComb: Old New York Architect
Green-Wood Discovery. March 13, 2013.
* St. John's Chapel (New York City) (1803, demolished 1918)
* Old Queens building at Rutgers University (1808)
* Castle Clinton (1808)
* Alexander Hall, Princeton Theological Seminary (1815)
Gallery
File:Montauk Point Lighthouse.jpg, Montauk Point Lighthouse (1796)
File:New York City Hall exterior, October 2016.jpg, New York City Hall
New York City Hall is the Government of New York City, seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center, Manhattan, Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, Park R ...
(1803)
File:Old Queens, New Brunswick, NJ - looking north, 2014.jpg, Old Queens at Rutgers University (1808)
File:Alexander Hall (Princeton Theological Seminary).jpg, Alexander Hall, Princeton Theological Seminary (1815)
References
External links
The John McComb Architectural Drawings at the New York Historical Society
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18th-century American architects
Lighthouse builders
1763 births
1853 deaths
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
Federalist architects
19th-century American architects
Architects from New York City
Scottish American