T. Henry Randall

Catharine's mother, Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt continued to live with the Randall family after her daughter's death.

[7] Among his large extended family was cousin Alexander Burton Hagner, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

[9][10] After a course of study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he completed his architectural training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[11] before being a part of the second wave of Americans to attend École des Beaux-Arts in Paris including Louis Sullivan of Chicago and Ernest Flagg of Brooklyn.

[13] In 1890, Randall opened his own office in New York, and during his brief career specialized in residential work, noted examples of which were a number of large country estates.

Selection of an architect was made by competition, with the entries judged by Richard Morris Hunt and Griffin & Randall beating out Carrère and Hastings.

Randall designed the Hall along the same lines as the Neues Gewandhaus of Leipzig, but his plans for an imposing Baroque circular front never materialized due to a lack of funds.

In the late 1890s he was awarded the commissions for the Jefferson Davis Monument in Richmond and the Colored Orphan Asylum on West 114th Street.

[24] It was said "that almost immediately conjugal troubles started"[26] and Elizabeth, a relative of the Goelet and Gerry families, and Henry separated by September 1902.