Peter B. Wight

American architect

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In Western architecture: United States
…of the Ruskinian aesthetic was Peter B. Wight, architect of the National Academy of Design, New York City (1863–65). There the Venetian Gothic mode came into its own. Wight and Potter—and, later, Potter’s brother William Appleton—were responsible for a number of collegiate and public buildings in this harsh, polychrome Gothic…
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