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William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907)
Education in Architecture and Engineering
Born into a family of whaling ship owners, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he was the son of William Proctor Jenney and Eliza LeBaron Gibbs, he received a practical education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and other New England schools.
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After a voyage to the South Pacific he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University to study civil engineering, but finding the instruction inadequate he transferred to the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, a sister institution to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied engineering and architecture from 1853 to 1856.
There he learned the latest iron construction techniques as well as the classical functionalist doctrine of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760-1834) - Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique - which was the standard architectural curriculum of French engineering schools.
One of Jenney's classmates was Gustave