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introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to have competitions among private architects for major structures. Competitions were held for the
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Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office by Antoinette J. Lee - Oxford University Press, USA (April 20, 2000)
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for the New York Customs job. Taylor and Gilbert had been members of the Gilbert & Taylor architecture firm in
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of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among its creations are the well-known
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Until 1893 the office used in-house architects. In 1893 Missouri Congressman
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that have served communities for decades, many recognized as
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The office handled some of the most important architectural
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Ammi B. Young, 1852 to 1862 (first Supervising Architect
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Former agency of the United States Treasury Department
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