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James Crawford Neilson (October 14 1816 – December 21 1900) or J. Crawford Neilson was a Baltimore Maryland-based architect. He was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1816. After the death of his father in 1822 the famiily moved to England and in 1824 to Brussels. In 1833 he returned to Baltimore and in 1835 became a member of the survey party working on the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad. His supervisor was Benjamin Henry Latrobe II.