Richmond Harold Shreve (June 25, 1877 – September 11, 1946) was a Canadian-American architect.

Biography

He was born on June 25, 1877, in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of Richmond Shreve, an Anglican priest, and Mary Catherine Parker Hocken. Shreve attended

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, taught there from 1902 to 1906, and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society. He was president of the

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from 1941 through 1943. He died on September 11, 1946, in

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Legacy

His company

Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, founded as Shreve & Lamb, was an architectural firm best known for designing the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1931. The firm was prominent in the proliferatio ...

led the construction of the

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as well as several

buildings. Shreve was also the lead architect for the landmark 1937 Williamsburg Houses housing development in Brooklyn and the Parkchester planned community developed by the

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in the east Bronx in 1941. He was profiled in the book ''The 100 Most Notable Cornellians''.

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Richmond H. Shreve, William F. Lamb and Arthur L. Harmon, photographed in 1941.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shreve, Richmond 1877 births 1946 deaths Canadian architects Architects from New York (state) People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Presidents of the American Institute of Architects Canadian emigrants to the United States