Joseph-Jacques Ramée

In his lifetime, he worked in France, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and the United States.

Ramée is known for his work at Union College, in Schenectady, New York, where in 1812 he designed the first comprehensively planned college campus in America By the early 1800s he had already established a reputation as a skilled designer of landscapes combined with houses and other kinds of buildings.

[1] Ramée arrived in the northern Adirondacks in late 1812 to work on projects in and around the small towns on Parish's vast tracts.

[2][3] On a return trip to Philadelphia in January 1813, Parish introduced Ramée to Eliphalet Nott, the ambitious president of Union College anxious to relocate the school to a large plot he had already purchased for the purpose.

[3] Ramée worked on the drawings for about a year,[4] and construction of two of the college buildings, North and South Halls, proceeded quickly enough to permit occupation in 1814.