Richard Upjohn [SEP] place of birth
known architect and served as a partner in his continued architectural firm in New York.
Life and career.
Richard Upjohn was born in Shaftesbury, England, where he was apprenticed to a builder and cabinet-maker. He eventually became a master-mechanic. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1829. They initially settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts and then moved on to Boston in 1833, where he worked in architectural design. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1836. His
known for the website "Odd Todd"
- Jenny Slate (born 1982), actress and comedian
- Richard Upjohn (1802–1878) and Richard Upjohn, Jr., architects, lived at 296 Clinton Street, which they designed; it was built in 1843 and added to in 1893 by Richard M. Upjohn.
- Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), writer, lived on Verandah Place between Henry and Clinton Street in the 1930s
In popular culture.
- Cobble Hill Park is the setting of the inciting incident in