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John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (1874 - 1937) was an architect most known for his designs of the Jefferson Memorial and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Pope was born in New York in 1874. He studied architecture at Columbia University and graduated in 1894. Pope travelled for two years through Italy and Greece, where he studied and sketched the remains of ancient buildings. Pope attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1896, returning to New York in 1900.

Throughout his career, Pope designed private houses (including for the Vanderbilt family: see Vanderbilt houses), and other public buildings besides the Jefferson Memorial and the NGA, such as the massive Masonic Temple of the Scottish Rite completed in 1910 (also in Washington), and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Pope's designs alternated between revivals of Gothic, Georgian, eighteenth-century French, and classical styles. The Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art were both neo-classical, modeled by Pope on the Roman Pantheon.

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