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Benjamin Henry Latrobe

British-American architect (1764–1820)

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About Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was a British-American neoclassical architect who immigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects arriving in the newly independent United States, drawing on influences from his travels in Italy, as well as British and French Neoclassical architects such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux. In his thirties, he immigrated to the new United States and designed the United States Capitol, on "Capitol Hill" in Washington, D.C., as well as the Old Baltimore Cathedral or The Baltimore Basilica,. It is the first Cathedral constructed in the United States for any Christian denomination. Latrobe also designed the largest structure in America at the time, the "Merchants' Exchange" in Baltimore. With extensive balconied atriums through the wings and a large central rotunda under a low dome which dominated the city, it was completed in 1820 after five years of work and endured into the early twentieth century.

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Occupation: architect, civil engineer, naturalist, painter
Position held: Architect of the Capitol, Architect of the Capitol
Citizenship: United States, Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: May 1, 1764, 1766
Died: September 3, 1820

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