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• #ILLINOIS ARCHITECT LICENSE SEARCH PROFESSIONAL#

Ricker became the first graduate of an architecture program in the United States in March 1873. The first student in this curriculum, Nathan Clifford Ricker arrived in Urbana on January 2, 1870. Architecture was included in the Polytechnic Department of the proposed administrative structure Gregory presented to the trustees in May 1867.

#ILLINOIS ARCHITECT LICENSE SEARCH PROFESSIONAL#

Almost a thousand miles to the west, newly appointed Regent John Milton Gregory, at the newly established center of learning, the Illinois Industrial University (renamed the University of Illinois in 1878), also realized the need for formal professional training in architecture. In October 1868 the MIT architecture department opened with four students in the four-year course. The profession's growing awareness of the need for a professional architecture school in the United States was evidenced by the report of the Committee on Education at the first annual convention of the American Institute of Architects in 1867. American architects were trained through apprenticeships or pursued studies abroad. Until 1868 there were no architectural schools in the United States, although Thomas Jefferson had proposed one at the University of Virginia in 1814. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was among the first American institutions of higher learning to offer a curriculum in architecture.