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Thomas Alexander Tefft (August 2 1826 – December 12 1859) was an American architect. Born in Richmond Rhode Island he was a schoolteacher when he was encouraged by Henry Barnard to become an architect. While still a student at Brown University Tefft designed the original Union Station in Providence and the Cannelton Cotton Mill in Cannelton Indiana. Graduating from Brown in 1851 Tefft went to Europe in 1856 to study art and to promote his ideas for a uniform international currency.
