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Isaac Rapp

1854 – 1933

American architect

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About Isaac Rapp

Lived 1854 – 1933 (aged 78–79). Isaac Rapp was an American architect.

Isaac Hamilton Rapp (1854 – March 27, 1933) was an American architect who has been called the "Creator of the Santa Fe style." He was born in Orange, New Jersey. ) Eventually a third brother, Charles Rapp moved to Trinidad, but did not join the architectural firm.

The First Christian Church in Trinidad, built in 1922, was one of the later works by Rapp.

Isaac Rapp died in 1933 at his home in Trinidad, Colorado.

Notable commissions The New Mexico Museum of Art (1917), an early example of Pueblo Revival architecture. All are in Santa Fe, New Mexico unless otherwise noted: Chaves County Courthouse, Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, 1911 La Fonda Hotel, 1921–1922 Las Animas County Court House, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, 1912 New Mexico Building at the Panama–California Exposition, San Diego, California, 1915 New Mexico Military Institute (multiple buildings), Roswell, beginning 1907 New Mexico Museum of Art, 1917 New Mexico State Building, Saint Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 New Mexico Territorial Capitol, 1900 (heavily remodeled) New Mexico Territorial Executive Mansion, 1908 (no longer extant) Gross, Kelly, and Company Warehouse, built in 1913, in the Santa Fe Historic District First Christian Church of Trinidad, Colorado, 1922 Fox West Theatre, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, 1908 Temple Aaron, Trinidad, Colorado, 1889

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Born
1854, Orange
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Died
1933, Trinidad
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Also known as
Isaac Hamilton Rapp

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Who was Isaac Rapp?

American architect (1854-1933)

When was Isaac Rapp born?

Isaac Rapp was born in 1854 in Orange.

When did Isaac Rapp die?

Isaac Rapp died in 1933 in Trinidad.

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Isaac Rapp was an architect.

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Isaac Rapp was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Isaac Rapp

· Wikidata: Q3154765

· DBpedia: Isaac Rapp

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