Architecture is the art and profession of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambiance to reflect a functional and aesthetic environment. People spend most of every day in a building of some kind. Whether it is a place to live, work, play, learn, worship, shop, or eat, buildings influence and shape people’s everyday lives. No matter if these places are private or public; indoors or out, rooms, skyscrapers, or complexes, architects are responsible for the designing of these structures. Architects are skilled in the arts and sciences of building designs and develop and turn concepts for structures into reality. Throughout history there have been many fields and artists that change the way the world perceives masterpieces. Architecture is one such field where great minds create marvels and change perspectives. Many architects are responsible for having emotional impacts on people’s lives and can change the way towns, cities, and countries are seen. Two architects that have greatly influenced American history are Richard Morris Hunt and Frank Lloyd Wright. These two architects changed the definition of architecture and the way the world is perceived. Richard Morris Hunt was America’s leading architect in the late 19th century, also known as the Gilded Age. Hunt was known for designing many lavish and notable buildings by combining historical architectural elements with modern technology. Considered “the dean of American architecture,” Hunt played an important role in shaping and professionalizing the architectural practice and education in the United States [Eli13]. Hunt’s work and knowledge in architecture, established precedents for education that included formal, intellectual, technical, and professional principles [Eli13]. The first academic architectural training programs were established in America by a close group of people in Hunt’s circle and were instructed to lead by his example. Richard Hunt was born in Vermont on October 31, 1827. After moving to Europe with his mother, Hunt took an interest in architecture and became the first American architect to study at the number one architectural school in the world, Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Here Hunt became a leader in his profession and in establishing the American Institute of Architects [Rot09]. Hunt returned to the United States in 1855 and established a practice where he sought to bring European knowledge, modern and historical, back home to a land he barely knew, but saw promise [Eli13]. Hunt’s traveling and widespread knowledge strengthened his view of architecture. By the early 1870’s, Hunt’s success as an architect became known among the “newly rich industrial magnates” of New York [Faz08]. America’s aristocrats wanted houses that “imitated the ancestral mansions of European nobility” [Faz08]. Hunt’s most well-known architectural designs for one of America’s prestigious families, included his works for William Kissam Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt family and Hunt remained in close association throughout his career. Called The Breakers, this Fifth Avenue town house in Newport, Rhode Island, was Hunt’s first work he designed for the Vanderbilt family. Coined Newport’s grandest “cottages,” The Breakers is a symbol of the Vanderbilt family’s “social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America” [The14]. Hunt’s other most famous work he helped design for the Vanderbilt family is the grand Biltmore Estate, a chateauesque country mansion in Asheville, North Carolina. Work