Biography: Henry Van Brunt was born in Boston in 1832 and graduated from Harvard in 1854. From 1854 to 1857 he apprenticed with the architect George Snell before moving to New York City to work in the firm of Richard Morris Hunt where he met William Robert Ware. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris Van Brunt returned to Boston to form the partnership Ware and Van Brunt in 1864. In 1881 Ware left the firm and Van Brunt continued to practice with Frank M. Howe and the firm moved Kansas City, Missouri in order to complete their building commissions for stations on the Union Pacific Railroad. Van Brunt later returned to Massachusetts where he died in 1903.