the gilded age, 1875 1894 125
Figure 5.6
chitectural training in the Boston office of Gridley J. F. Bryant and
Secretary of the Treasury
Arthur Gilman from 1857 to 1862. He arrived in Washington, D.C., in
John Sherman and his
1862 and applied to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase for a
staff, including James G.
position in the Bureau of Construction. Two years later, in 1864, he
Hill in upper left-hand
succeeded in obtaining a clerkship in the Treasury Department.
corner. Courtesy
Later, he worked as a clerk in the Quartermaster General s Office and
National Archives.
in the Loan Branch of the Treasury Department. In 1865, Hill went