Alexander Jackson Davis

Alexander Jackson Davis, or A. J. Davis (July 24, 1803 – January 14, 1892), is one of the most successful and influential American architects of his generation, in particular his association with the Gothic Revival style.

Davis was born in New York City to Cornelius Davis, a bookseller and editor of theological works, and Julia Jackson.

He spends his early years in New Jersey and attends elementary school in upstate New York.

In 1818, Davis goes to Alexandria, Virginia, to learn the printing trade from a half-brother.

Living mostly in New York City from 1823 onward, he studies at the American Academy of Fine Arts, the New-York Drawing Association, and from the Antique casts of the National Academy of Design.

Dropping out of school, he becomes a respectable lithographer and from 1826 works as a draftsman for Josiah R. Brady, a New York architect who was an early exponent of the Gothic revival style: Brady's Gothic 1824 St. Luke's Episcopal Church is the oldest surviving structure in Rochester, New York.

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