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Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (British architect and engineer, 1764-1820, active in the United States)
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British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol and other public buildings in the United States. -- Joseph Donath was a Philadelphia merchant who is best remembered for supplying glass to Thomas Jefferson.
British-born architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, most famous for designing the United States Capitol, is known as the "Father of American Architecture."
This letter by Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), architect and engineer, was written at a time when Latrobe's relationship with the Commonwealth of Virginia, and more specifically James Wood, Jr., Governor, and the state legislature was at its most unfavorable point. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in December 1798.
Architect and engineer for a portion of the U.S. Capitol. Emigrated to Norfolk, Virginia in 1796.
American engineer and architect; designer of the restored U.S. Capitol after the War of 1812.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe was an architect and engineer. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1799.
Architect and engineer active in the United States, 1796-1820; native of Fulneck, England.
Architect and engineer.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), architect and engineer. Latrobe emigrated to Norfolk, Va., in 1796; married in 1800; and had six children, including Juliana (1804-1890) and Benjamin Henry (1806-1878). Latrobe is known for many famous projects, including the south wing of the United States Capitol and the rebuilding of the Capitol after the War of 1812, as well as the Baltimore Cathedral.
Epithet: architect
Benjamin Henry Latrobe was one of the foremost architects and engineers practicing in the United States in the Early National Period. Trained in England under Cockerell and Smeaton, he is credited with introducing European professional standards into American practice, hitherto dominated by talented amateurs and self-taught men. He executed the preliminary survey for the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company in 1799 and was named its engineer in 1804. The canal was to join the Delaware River with Chesapeake Bay via the Christiana River and Elk Creek. Work was halted by the economic difficulties precipitated by the renewal of the Napoleonic Wars. It resumed in 1824 on a different route.
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