The Hunt Collection is rich in drawings, such as plans, elevations, sections, renderings, by Richard Morris Hunt and his office. They range from initial sketches to presentation watercolors, but few are "as-built" documents. These materials date from the various periods in his career: a) Hunt's years in Paris as a student under Grand Prix de Rome winner Hector-Martin Lefuel; b) Hunt's later employment by Lefuel when the French architect led the building of Paris' new Louvre in the 1850s; and c) from Hunt's forty years of professional practice in America. Hunt and his office architects (including Emmanuel L. Masqueray, Edward R. Raht, and Sydney V. Stratton) as well as collaborators (Herter Brothers, Jules Allard Fils, and L. Marcotte & Co.), designed pedestals for public statues by American realist sculptor John Q. A. Ward, iron-framed commercial offices and stores, seminary buildings at Princeton and Yale, wood cottages for the merchant class and stone mansions and gilded interiors for the era's industrial rich, ornamented with sculpture by Karl T.F. Bitter. Added to this panorama of Richard Morris Hunt's practice are drawings from the office of Hunt and Hunt.