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[[File:Josiah-conder-grave.JPG|right|thumb|300px|The grave of Conder and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]]
[[File:Josiah-conder-grave.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The grave of Conder and his wife at [[Gokoku-ji (Tokyo)|Gokoku-ji]] in Tokyo]]
*''Born: [[1852]]''
*''Born: [[1852]]''
*''Died: 1920''
*''Died: 1920''
He completed the original two-story brick main hall of the Tokyo National Museum in [[1881]], along with a [[Hokkaido Products Hall|Hokkaidô Products Hall]] on the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]] in the same year. His final commission from the Japanese government - and the final commission by the [[Meiji government]] for any foreign architect - was the [[Ministry of the Navy]] building at Kasumigaseki, completed in [[1895]]. Two years later, however, he did oversee repairs on the Rokumeikan following an earthquake, installing electric lights, and renovating it otherwise.
He completed the original two-story brick main hall of the Tokyo National Museum in [[1881]], along with a [[Hokkaido Products Hall|Hokkaidô Products Hall]] on the banks of the [[Sumidagawa]] in the same year. His final commission from the Japanese government - and the final commission by the [[Meiji government]] for any foreign architect - was the [[Ministry of the Navy]] building at Kasumigaseki, completed in [[1895]]. Two years later, however, he did oversee repairs on the Rokumeikan following an earthquake, installing electric lights, and renovating it otherwise.
[[File:Mitsubishi-ichigokan.JPG|center|thumb|400px|The Mitsubishi Ichigôkan, the first office building in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. Designed by Conder and completed in [[1894]], it was torn down in 1968, and reconstructed in 2009.]]
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