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On this day in 1850 William Schickel was born in Wiesbaden, Hochbein, Germany. He was a student of Wilhelm Bozler. In 1870, at the age of twenty, he emigrated to the United States, passing through Castle Garden in New York City, and the next day started his New York architectural career in the offices of the renowned Richard Morris Hunt. In 1885 he formed William Schickel and Company in association with Isaac E. Ditmars. He was the architect for the Archabbey Basilica.
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