Chester Holmes Aldrich
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Chester Holmes Aldrich (Providence, RI, 4 June 4 1871 — Rome, 26 December 26 1940) was an American architect and director of the American Academy in Rome from 1935 to his death in 1940.
Aldrich graduated from Columbia University in 1893. After a year with the New York architects Carrère and Hastings he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris getting a diploma in 1900. He returned to Carrère and Hastings until he formed a partnership with William Adams Delano. Together they are responsible for designing some of the most famous Beaux-Arts buildings in New York; including notably the Rockefeller family mansion of Kykuit, at the estate in Westchester County.
Their joint work is listed under William Adams Delano. Aldrich was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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