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Henry Wiencek

Henry Wiencek
Henry Wiencek is a prizewinning historian and writer and the author of several books, including The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently, Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.


A Brief History of New York’s First Great Architectural Firm

Henry Wiencek on the Eccentric, Creative Minds Behind McKim, Meade and White
July 22, 2025  By Henry Wiencek
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