The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Series 2): Volume 2 2-2, Parts 1 & 2

by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles E. Brownell (Editor), Jeffrey A. Cohen

These final volumes in the distinguished edition of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe document fully the complete architectural career of this important early American figure, bringing to light for the first time the building history of such important projects as the United States Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, and Baltimore Cathedral.

802 pages, Hardcover

First published March 20, 1995

About the author

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was a British-American neoclassical architect who emigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the new 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 emigrated 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, (later renamed the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary). 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. He is the father of Benjamin Henry Latrobe II.