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fully restored by the Greenwich Point Conservancy 2016. In addition, the Innis Arden Cottage, which was designed by an associate of Potter, Katherine C. Budd, an early and prominent woman and architect, remains on the property as well. The 1903 Innis Arden Cottage was completely restored by the Greenwich Point Conservancy between 2005 - 2011. Both the Old Barn and the Innis Arden Cottage are open to the public.
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estate, known as Innis Arden. Today the 147-acre (0.59 km) estate is a public park in Greenwich, known as Greenwich Point. Several original buildings designed by Potter remain on the property, including the Old Barn (circa 1887), which is the oldest extant building at Greenwich Point and was
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Potter was the uncle of Mrs. J. Kennedy Tod (Maria Howard Potter) daughter of Howard Potter, and in 1887 Potter designed Innis Arden House and several other buildings for Mr. and Mrs. Tod's
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Alexander Hall, home of Richardson Auditorium : a chronicle of Alexander Hall's significance in the development of the Princeton University Campus
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of various sizes and shapes. For Princeton, retaining Potter represented a shift from dependence on
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architects to a New York practitioner. He would receive from the college an honorary
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Church of the Divine Paternity (Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York)
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Concurrent with his years at the U.S. Treasury, Potter formed a partnership with
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Eliphalet Nott Potter (1836–1901), professor and president of Union College and
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Potter died February 19, 1909. Among his apprentices was the architect
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degree in 1872, and go on to design several other buildings on campus.
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From 1874 to 1877, Potter served as supervising architect of the
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vocabulary and octagonal form used by his half-brother for the
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as a member of the Class of 1864. Potter was the son of Bishop
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Edward T. and William A. Potter: American Victorian Architects
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was Potter's first major commission. In it, he took the High
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Church of the Divine Paternity (Fourth Universalist Society)
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Townhouse, 33 East 67th Street, New York, New York (1903)
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The University Hotel, Princeton (1875–1877, with partner
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for a year, after which he spent another year touring
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St. James Protestant Episcopal Chapel; known as the
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William A. Potter

Alexander Hall
Princeton University
architect
Princeton University
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Schenectady, New York
Philadelphia
Episcopal Academy
Union College
Alonzo Potter
Clarkson Nott Potter
House of Representatives
Civil War
Howard Potter
Brown Shipley
Robert Brown Potter
Henry Codman Potter
Horatio Potter
Hobart College
Edward Tuckerman Potter
Nott Memorial
Union College
Columbia College
chemistry
France
New York
George B. Post
James Brown Lord

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