State Capitol building, Balboa Park (San Diego), and the chapel at West Point. He began his apprenticeship at Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell in 1884, and his apprenticeship ended in 1891 when he won a national design competition for St. Matthew's in Dallas, Texas. His first years with Renwick's firm partly coincided with Russell's first years, below. John Wellborn Root, one of the founders of the Chicago School style. Major buildings designed The Reformed Church of Saugerties, 173 Main St Suagerties, NY (1852) Mark Twain House, 21 Fifth Avenue, NYC (c. 1842; razed 1953) Grace Church, New York (1843–1846) Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D.C. (1847–1855) Calvary Church, New York (1848) Free Academy Building, City College of New York, Lexington Avenue and 23rd Street, New York City (1849) Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel, Washington, D.C. (1850) Rhinelander Gardens, 110-124 West 11th Street, NYC, a three-story above raised basement row of houses (c. 1850; razed 1956) Trinity Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. (1851; razed 1936) Municipal Courthouse, 817 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia (1852) St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, (1858–1879) Corcoran Gallery of Art (currently the Renwick Gallery), Washington, D.C. (1859–1871) Main Building, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1861–1865) Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, Faribault, Minnesota (1862–1869) Church of St. Barnabas expansion, Irvington, New York (1863) St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Livingston, Brooklyn, New York (1866-1869) St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC (1867). Greymore Friars' Residence, NYC (1869) Cathedral High School, NYC (1869) First Presbyterian Church of Hartford, Connecticut (1870; Renwick & Sands) Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Canton, Ohio (1871) St. Bartholomew's Church, Madison Avenue and East 44th Street, NYC (1871–1872; razed) Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago (1872–1874) St. Claire's Chapel, [St. Mary Help of Christians Church, Aiken, South Carolina (1879) Former St. Anthony Hall Chapter House, New York (circa 1879) St. Nicholas of Myra Church, East 10th Street, NYC (1882–1883) Demarest Building, Fifth Avenue and East 33rd Street, NYC (c. 1890) Gallery References Notes Bibliography Packard, Robert. (Ed.) (1995). The Encyclopedia of American Architecture (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. External links Selma Rattner research papers on James Renwick, 1856-2001 (bulk 1960s-2001) Held in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York City Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Renwick