William Strickland (architect)

William Strickland
1829 portrait of Strickland by John Neagle
Born	(1788-11-00)November , 1788 Navesink, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	April 6, 1854(1854-04-06) (aged 65) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Architect
Spouse	Rachel McCulloch Trenchard
Children	5
Parent(s)	John Strickland Elizabeth Campbell
Buildings	Second Bank of the United States and Merchants' Exchange

William Strickland (November 1788 – April 6, 1854) was a noted architect and civil engineer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin Latrobe and mentor to Thomas Ustick Walter, Strickland helped establish the Greek Revival movement in the United States. A pioneering engineer, he wrote a seminal book on railroad construction, helped build several early American railroads, and designed the first ocean breakwater in the Western Hemisphere.^[1] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1820.^[2]