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Peter Harrison

Biographical InformationPeter Harrison was a colonial American architect who was born in Yorkshire, England to a Quaker family. He immigrated to Rhode Island in 1738 where he worked as a shipbuilder and then as an architect. In 1761 he moved to New Haven, Connecticut where he later died in 1775.
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Bridenbaugh, Carl. Peter Harrison, First American Architect. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1949. Print.
Maynard, W. Barksdale. Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002. Print.