Warren R. Briggs

He studied there in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, who had also taught Richardson[1] Upon his return in 1874 he secured a position with the noted Boston firm of Peabody & Stearns.

[3] In 1892, Briggs submitted a design for the Connecticut state building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition due to be held in Chicago the following year.

The Commissioners responsible for the representation of Connecticut at the Exposition selected his submitted design "for a state building to cost around $10,000".

[4] The building was erected at the Exposition grounds in Chicago by the end of 1892 and by the culmination of the Exposition it had seen thousands of visitors pass through its doors and received favourable reviews lauding its "thoroughly homelike structure" [5] He worked alone until 1914, when he re-established his firm as Briggs & Caldwell, with Edward B. Caldwell, Jr.

This work combined new information with that which Briggs had previously published, in book or article form.