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List of works by Benjamin Henry Latrobe

April 13, 2024

Works by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a British-born architect, were influenced by Greek Revival styles and those of British architect John Soane. Latrobe emigrated to the United States, living initially in Virginia, then in Philadelphia, before being hired to work on government projects in Washington, D.C. His works most notably included the central portion of the United States Capitol, along with designing the porticoes of the White House. He also designed numerous houses and other buildings.

Latrobe worked on various engineering projects, as well, including the Philadelphia waterworks, along with projects in New Orleans where he spent the last years of his life. He wrote quite a bit, including extensive notes in his journals, which have since been published, and he translated works by others.

Architecture edit

Latrobe's many architectural works include:

Work Place Year Notes Image
Hammerwood Park East Grinstead, UK 1792  
Ashdown House East Sussex, UK 1793  
William Pennock House Norfolk, Virginia 1796 [1][2]
Virginia State Penitentiary Richmond, Virginia 1797–1798 [3]  
Gamble Hill (Col. John Harvie's home) Richmond 1798 [4]
Bank of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1798–1801 First major Greek Revival building in the United States.  
Sedgeley Philadelphia 1799–1802 Built for William Cramond on the Schuylkill River, but the mansion fell into disrepair after 1836 when it was subdivided. It was demolished in 1857, and the land is now part of Fairmount Park. A tenant's cottage build along with the mansion remains in existence — the cottage is the only remaining building in Philadelphia designed by Latrobe.[5]  
Sansom's Buildings Philadelphia 1800–1801 with Thomas Carstairs
Edward Shippen Burd House Philadelphia 1801–1802 Located at Chestnut and 9th Street; Architectural characteristics similar to the Admiralty House in London, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell.[6]
Nassau Hall Princeton, New Jersey 1802 Originally designed by Robert Smith, and for a period in 1783, it hosted the Congress of the Confederation. The building was later redesigned by Latrobe, after a fire destroyed the building, though it was destroyed once again by fire in 1855 and rebuilt by Philadelphia architect John Notman.[7]  
Stanhope Hall Princeton, New Jersey 1803 The third building of Princeton University's campus and originally home to the library, study halls, and literary societies. Later known as "Geological Hall," in 1915 it was named in honor of Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of the university at the time of its construction.[8]  
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Baltimore 1806–1821 First Catholic Cathedral built in the United States  
Waln House Philadelphia 1807–1808
Clifton House Richmond, Virginia 1808 Built for Benjamin James Harris, the house featured squarish-dimensions and a central, multi-story hall with a cupola to provide lighting.[9]
Markoe House Philadelphia 1808–1811 Built for John Markoe, who later sold it and it was used as a boarding house until the 1880s when it was demolished.[10]
Long Branch Millwood, Virginia 1811 Built for Robert Carter Burwell[11]  
Portico of Belleview Washington, D.C. 1813
Ashland Lexington, Kentucky 1813 Built two wings onto the home.  
Brentwood Washington, D.C. 1817 Florida Avenue and 6th St NE; Destroyed by fire in 1917[12]
Van Ness Mansion Washington, D.C. 1813–1818 Later demolished[13]  
Christ Church Washington, D.C. 1807 The building used by the city's first Episcopal parish was designed in the Gothic Revival style.[14]  
Decatur House Washington, D.C. 1818 Located on Jackson Place[15]  
United States Capitol Washington, D.C. Central portion only, including original low dome  
Davidge Hall Baltimore The building known today as Davidge Hall, completed in 1812, is part of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It is the oldest building in the Northern Hemisphere in continuous use for medical education.[16]  
University of Pennsylvania Medical School Philadelphia Designed in collaboration with his apprentice, William Strickland; Demolished in 1874.[17]
Pope Villa Lexington, Kentucky 1811–1812 326 Grosvenor Avenue; The house was the first to incorporate an English basement.[18]  
Adena Mansion Chillicothe, Ohio 1806  
Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati 1820 Originally the home of Martin Baum  
St. John's Church Washington, D.C. 1816 [15]  
St. Paul's Church Alexandria, Virginia 1818 [19][20]  
The White House east and west colonnades Washington, D.C. Designed in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson, and north and south porticos, with James Hoban[21]  
Latrobe Gate, Washington Navy Yard Washington, D.C. 1806 Believed to be the oldest extant example of Greek Revival architecture in the United States.[22]  
West College, or Old West at Dickinson College Carlisle, Pennsylvania 1803 [23][24]  
Belvidere Belmont, New York 1804 Built in 1804 from plans attributed to Latrobe.[25]  

Writing edit

Benjamin Henry Latrobe authored several books and translated others, including:

  • Characteristic Anecdotes ... to Illustrate the Character of Frederick the Great (1788)[26]
  • Authentic Elucidation of the History of Counts Struensee [sic] and Brandt and of the Revolution in Denmark in the Year 1772 (1789)[26]

James Bruce hired Latrobe in 1790 to help put together Travels, a memoir of Bruce's journeys in Africa.[27][28]

After he arrived in the United States, Latrobe befriended Constantin-François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, who stimulated an interest in geology. Latrobe kept numerous journals with geological notes and published a number of papers, including "Memoir on the Sand Hills of Cape Henry" (1799), Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (vol. 4, pp 439–44).[29]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 69
  2. ^ Fazio 2006, pp. 210–221
  3. ^ Hamlin 1955, pp. 120–126
  4. ^ Hamlin 1955, pp. 99–100
  5. ^ Westcott 1877, pp. 452–453
  6. ^ Hamlin 1955, pp. 150–151
  7. ^ "Nassau Hall". Princeton University. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  8. ^ Leitch, Alexander. "Stanhope Hall". Princeton University.
  9. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 103
  10. ^ Fazio 2006, p. 354
  11. ^ Hamlin 1955, pp. 111–115
  12. ^ Goode 1979, p. 34
  13. ^ Hamlin 1944, p. 32
  14. ^ "Christ Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  15. ^ a b Federal Writers' Project (1937). Washington, City and Capital: Federal Writers' Project. Works Progress Administration / United States Government Printing Office. p. 126.
  16. ^ "About Davidge Hall". University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2009.
  17. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 16
  18. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 106
  19. ^ Alexandria, VA - Historic Alexandria - Historic Preservation: Sites on the National Register of Historic Places
  20. ^ St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  21. ^ Fazio 2006, pp. 364–370
  22. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form". National Capital Planning Commission. National Park Service. 30 June 1972. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
  23. ^ Norton 1951, pp. 125–132
  24. ^ . Dickenson College. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2009.
  25. ^ Robert Bromeley and Mrs. Patrick W. Harrington (August 1971). . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2009. See also: . Archived from the original on 14 August 2012. and . Archived from the original on 14 August 2012.
  26. ^ a b Hamlin 1955, p. 22
  27. ^ Leask, Nigel (2002). "Curious Narrative and the Problem of Credit: James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile". Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 (PDF). Oxford University Press. p. 65.
  28. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 26
  29. ^ Hamlin 1955, p. 80

References edit

  • Addison, Agnes (July 1942). "Latrobe vs. Strickland". The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 2 (3): 26–29. doi:10.2307/901161. JSTOR 901161.
  • Burchard, John; Bush-Brown, Albert (1966). The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History. Little, Brown.
  • Carter II, Edward C. (1971–1972). "Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Growth and Development of Washington, 1798-1818". Records of the Columbia Historical Society.
  • Donaldson, Gary A. (1987). "Bringing Water to the Crescent City: Benjamin Latrobe and the New Orleans Waterworks System". Louisiana History. 28 (4). Louisiana Historical Association: 381–396. PMID 11617566.
  • Dumbauld, Edward (1980). "Thomas Jefferson and the City of Washington". Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 50.
  • Fazio, Michael W.; Snadon, Patrick A. (2006). The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Fazio, Michael W. (September 1989). "Benjamin Latrobe's Designs for a Lighthouse at the Mouth of the Mississippi River". The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 48 (3): 232–247. doi:10.2307/990429. JSTOR 990429.
  • Formwalt, Lee W. (1980). "Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Transportation in the District of Columbia, 1802-1817". Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 50.
  • Formwalt, Lee W. (October 1977). "An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796-1798". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 85 (4). Virginia Historical Society: 387–410.
  • Formwalt, Lee W. (1979). Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Internal Improvements in the New Republic, 1796-1820. Ayer Publishing / Catholic University of America. ISBN 0405140800.
  • Frary, Ihna Thayer (1969). They Built the Capitol. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 0-8369-5089-5.
  • Goode, James M. (1979). Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0-87474-479-2.
  • Hamlin, Talbot (1955). Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Oxford University Press.
  • Hamlin, Talbot (1944). Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life Prior to the War Between the States. Oxford University Press.
  • Kennedy, Roger G. (1989). Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55592-9.
  • Kimball, Fiske (1922). Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic. Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (1905). The Journal of Latrobe. D. Appleton & Company.
  • Norton, Paul F. (June 1951). "Latrobe and Old West at Dickenson College". The Art Bulletin. 33 (2): 125–132. doi:10.2307/3047345. JSTOR 3047345.
  • Norton, Paul F. (1977). Latrobe, Jefferson, and the National Capitol. Garland Pub. ISBN 0-8240-2716-7.
  • Peterson, Charles E. (December 1953). "Early Prisons". The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 12 (4): 26–31. doi:10.2307/987648. JSTOR 987648.
  • Stapleton, Darwin H.; Carter II, Edward C. (September 1984). ""I have the itch of Botany, of Chemistry, of Mathematics...strong upon me": the Science of Benjamin Henry Latrobe". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 128 (3). American Philosophical Society: 173–192. PMID 11615972.
  • Tatum, George B. (1961). Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Westcott, Thompson (1877). The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia. Porter & Coates.

External links edit

  •   Media related to Buildings by Benjamin Henry Latrobe at Wikimedia Commons

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Works by Benjamin Henry Latrobe a British born architect were influenced by Greek Revival styles and those of British architect John Soane Latrobe emigrated to the United States living initially in Virginia then in Philadelphia before being hired to work on government projects in Washington D C His works most notably included the central portion of the United States Capitol along with designing the porticoes of the White House He also designed numerous houses and other buildings Latrobe worked on various engineering projects as well including the Philadelphia waterworks along with projects in New Orleans where he spent the last years of his life He wrote quite a bit including extensive notes in his journals which have since been published and he translated works by others Contents 1 Architecture 2 Writing 3 Notes 4 References 5 External linksArchitecture editLatrobe s many architectural works include Work Place Year Notes ImageHammerwood Park East Grinstead UK 1792 nbsp Ashdown House East Sussex UK 1793 nbsp William Pennock House Norfolk Virginia 1796 1 2 Virginia State Penitentiary Richmond Virginia 1797 1798 3 nbsp Gamble Hill Col John Harvie s home Richmond 1798 4 Bank of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1798 1801 First major Greek Revival building in the United States nbsp Sedgeley Philadelphia 1799 1802 Built for William Cramond on the Schuylkill River but the mansion fell into disrepair after 1836 when it was subdivided It was demolished in 1857 and the land is now part of Fairmount Park A tenant s cottage build along with the mansion remains in existence the cottage is the only remaining building in Philadelphia designed by Latrobe 5 nbsp Sansom s Buildings Philadelphia 1800 1801 with Thomas CarstairsEdward Shippen Burd House Philadelphia 1801 1802 Located at Chestnut and 9th Street Architectural characteristics similar to the Admiralty House in London designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell 6 Nassau Hall Princeton New Jersey 1802 Originally designed by Robert Smith and for a period in 1783 it hosted the Congress of the Confederation The building was later redesigned by Latrobe after a fire destroyed the building though it was destroyed once again by fire in 1855 and rebuilt by Philadelphia architect John Notman 7 nbsp Stanhope Hall Princeton New Jersey 1803 The third building of Princeton University s campus and originally home to the library study halls and literary societies Later known as Geological Hall in 1915 it was named in honor of Samuel Stanhope Smith president of the university at the time of its construction 8 nbsp Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Baltimore 1806 1821 First Catholic Cathedral built in the United States nbsp Waln House Philadelphia 1807 1808Clifton House Richmond Virginia 1808 Built for Benjamin James Harris the house featured squarish dimensions and a central multi story hall with a cupola to provide lighting 9 Markoe House Philadelphia 1808 1811 Built for John Markoe who later sold it and it was used as a boarding house until the 1880s when it was demolished 10 Long Branch Millwood Virginia 1811 Built for Robert Carter Burwell 11 nbsp Portico of Belleview Washington D C 1813Ashland Lexington Kentucky 1813 Built two wings onto the home nbsp Brentwood Washington D C 1817 Florida Avenue and 6th St NE Destroyed by fire in 1917 12 Van Ness Mansion Washington D C 1813 1818 Later demolished 13 nbsp Christ Church Washington D C 1807 The building used by the city s first Episcopal parish was designed in the Gothic Revival style 14 nbsp Decatur House Washington D C 1818 Located on Jackson Place 15 nbsp United States Capitol Washington D C Central portion only including original low dome nbsp Davidge Hall Baltimore The building known today as Davidge Hall completed in 1812 is part of the University of Maryland School of Medicine It is the oldest building in the Northern Hemisphere in continuous use for medical education 16 nbsp University of Pennsylvania Medical School Philadelphia Designed in collaboration with his apprentice William Strickland Demolished in 1874 17 Pope Villa Lexington Kentucky 1811 1812 326 Grosvenor Avenue The house was the first to incorporate an English basement 18 nbsp Adena Mansion Chillicothe Ohio 1806 nbsp Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati 1820 Originally the home of Martin Baum nbsp St John s Church Washington D C 1816 15 nbsp St Paul s Church Alexandria Virginia 1818 19 20 nbsp The White House east and west colonnades Washington D C Designed in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson and north and south porticos with James Hoban 21 nbsp Latrobe Gate Washington Navy Yard Washington D C 1806 Believed to be the oldest extant example of Greek Revival architecture in the United States 22 nbsp West College or Old West at Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 1803 23 24 nbsp Belvidere Belmont New York 1804 Built in 1804 from plans attributed to Latrobe 25 nbsp Writing editBenjamin Henry Latrobe authored several books and translated others including Characteristic Anecdotes to Illustrate the Character of Frederick the Great 1788 26 Authentic Elucidation of the History of Counts Struensee sic and Brandt and of the Revolution in Denmark in the Year 1772 1789 26 James Bruce hired Latrobe in 1790 to help put together Travels a memoir of Bruce s journeys in Africa 27 28 After he arrived in the United States Latrobe befriended Constantin Francois Chassebœuf comte de Volney who stimulated an interest in geology Latrobe kept numerous journals with geological notes and published a number of papers including Memoir on the Sand Hills of Cape Henry 1799 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society vol 4 pp 439 44 29 Notes edit Hamlin 1955 p 69 Fazio 2006 pp 210 221 Hamlin 1955 pp 120 126 Hamlin 1955 pp 99 100 Westcott 1877 pp 452 453 Hamlin 1955 pp 150 151 Nassau Hall Princeton University Retrieved 24 January 2009 Leitch Alexander Stanhope Hall Princeton University Hamlin 1955 p 103 Fazio 2006 p 354 Hamlin 1955 pp 111 115 Goode 1979 p 34 Hamlin 1944 p 32 Christ Church National Park Service Retrieved 9 July 2009 a b Federal Writers Project 1937 Washington City and Capital Federal Writers Project Works Progress Administration United States Government Printing Office p 126 About Davidge Hall University of Maryland Archived from the original on 12 July 2012 Retrieved 21 January 2009 Hamlin 1955 p 16 Hamlin 1955 p 106 Alexandria VA Historic Alexandria Historic Preservation Sites on the National Register of Historic Places St Paul s Episcopal Church Fazio 2006 pp 364 370 National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form National Capital Planning Commission National Park Service 30 June 1972 Retrieved 9 July 2009 Norton 1951 pp 125 132 West College Old West Dickenson College Archived from the original on 11 October 2008 Retrieved 12 January 2009 Robert Bromeley and Mrs Patrick W Harrington August 1971 National Register of Historic Places Registration Belvidere New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation Archived from the original on 29 September 2011 Retrieved 14 June 2009 See also Unfiled NHL Nomination Form for Villa Belvidere Archived from the original on 14 August 2012 and Accompanying five photos Archived from the original on 14 August 2012 a b Hamlin 1955 p 22 Leask Nigel 2002 Curious Narrative and the Problem of Credit James Bruce s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770 1840 PDF Oxford University Press p 65 Hamlin 1955 p 26 Hamlin 1955 p 80References editAddison Agnes July 1942 Latrobe vs Strickland The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2 3 26 29 doi 10 2307 901161 JSTOR 901161 Burchard John Bush Brown Albert 1966 The Architecture of America A Social and Cultural History Little Brown Carter II Edward C 1971 1972 Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Growth and Development of Washington 1798 1818 Records of the Columbia Historical Society Donaldson Gary A 1987 Bringing Water to the Crescent City Benjamin Latrobe and the New Orleans Waterworks System Louisiana History 28 4 Louisiana Historical Association 381 396 PMID 11617566 Dumbauld Edward 1980 Thomas Jefferson and the City of Washington Records of the Columbia Historical Society 50 Fazio Michael W Snadon Patrick A 2006 The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe The Johns Hopkins University Press Fazio Michael W September 1989 Benjamin Latrobe s Designs for a Lighthouse at the Mouth of the Mississippi River The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 48 3 232 247 doi 10 2307 990429 JSTOR 990429 Formwalt Lee W 1980 Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Transportation in the District of Columbia 1802 1817 Records of the Columbia Historical Society 50 Formwalt Lee W October 1977 An English Immigrant Views American Society Benjamin Henry Latrobe s Virginia Years 1796 1798 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 85 4 Virginia Historical Society 387 410 Formwalt Lee W 1979 Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Internal Improvements in the New Republic 1796 1820 Ayer Publishing Catholic University of America ISBN 0405140800 Frary Ihna Thayer 1969 They Built the Capitol Ayer Publishing ISBN 0 8369 5089 5 Goode James M 1979 Capital Losses A Cultural History of Washington s Destroyed Buildings Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN 0 87474 479 2 Hamlin Talbot 1955 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Oxford University Press Hamlin Talbot 1944 Greek Revival Architecture in America Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life Prior to the War Between the States Oxford University Press Kennedy Roger G 1989 Orders from France The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World 1780 1820 Alfred A Knopf ISBN 0 394 55592 9 Kimball Fiske 1922 Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic Charles Scribner s Sons Latrobe Benjamin Henry 1905 The Journal of Latrobe D Appleton amp Company Norton Paul F June 1951 Latrobe and Old West at Dickenson College The Art Bulletin 33 2 125 132 doi 10 2307 3047345 JSTOR 3047345 Norton Paul F 1977 Latrobe Jefferson and the National Capitol Garland Pub ISBN 0 8240 2716 7 Peterson Charles E December 1953 Early Prisons The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 12 4 26 31 doi 10 2307 987648 JSTOR 987648 Stapleton Darwin H Carter II Edward C September 1984 I have the itch of Botany of Chemistry of Mathematics strong upon me the Science of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 128 3 American Philosophical Society 173 192 PMID 11615972 Tatum George B 1961 Penn s Great Town 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings University of Pennsylvania Press Westcott Thompson 1877 The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia Porter amp Coates External links edit nbsp Media related to Buildings by Benjamin Henry Latrobe at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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