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Wright, Henry
1878 - Born in Lawrence, Kansas
1872 - married Carrie Buchan
1902-1904
- planned out the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis and the designs of parks and park ways in Kansas City, Denver, and in Cincinnati
1909 - independently worked after being under Frederick Law Olmsted's influence
1923 - joined with Clarence Stein in planning the Garden City communities in the New York area
1924-1928
- built (alongside Stein) Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York
1926 - wrote the classic report A Plan for the State of New York while he was the planning advisor for the New York State Housing and Regional Planning Commission
1928 - also built it in Radburn, New Jersey but it was never completed
1936 - the US architect died
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