Hart Wood was born December 26 , 1880 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Hart 's grandfather Samuel Wood , father Thomas Hart Benton Wood , and uncle Louis M. H. Wood were all in the building trades . His Uncle Louis had studied architecture at Cornell University , sought work in Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 , then settled in Kansas in 1873 , working until 1887 with architect John G. Haskell , whose commissions included the Kansas State Capitol , Chase County Courthouse , and buildings for Kansas University , Washburn University , Haskell Institute , and federal schools for tribes in the neighboring Indian Territory . Thomas moved his family west in the early 1880s , settling for a time in Hays , Kansas . By 1890 , both brothers had moved to a booming Denver , Colorado , awash with architects and civic art clubs and rapidly filling with Richardsonian Romanesque buildings downtown
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