Alfred Built Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was an American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect. His work followed trends in Victorian style, evolving from the Greek Revival to Second Empire to Richardsonian Romanesque.
Mullett was born at Taunton in Somerset, England. When he was 8 years old, his family emigrated to Glendale, Ohio, where in 1843 his father bought an 80 acre (32 hectares) farm. He matricula...
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Alfred Built Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was an American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect. His work followed trends in Victorian style, evolving from the Greek Revival to Second Empire to Richardsonian Romanesque.
Mullett was born at Taunton in Somerset, England. When he was 8 years old, his family emigrated to Glendale, Ohio, where in 1843 his father bought an 80 acre (32 hectares) farm. He matriculated at Farmers' College in College Hill, studied mathematics and mechanical drawing, but left as a sophomore in 1854. He trained in the Cincinnati office of architect Isaiah Rogers and became a partner, until leaving on less than friendly terms in 1860. Establishing his own practice, his first known individual design is the Church of the New Jerusalem, a board-and-batten Gothic Revival church built at Glendale in 1861.
After serving with the Union army, Mullett in 1863 relocated to Washington to again work under Rogers, since 1862 the de facto...
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