Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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Charles Willson Peale, Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1804)

(May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820)

Associated Sites: Harper's Estate, Oakland, Place D'Armes (renamed Jackson Square), Sedgeley, United States Capitol, United States Navy Hospital and Asylum

Associated Terms: Ancient style, Basin, Canal, Clump, Column/Pillar, Flower Garden, French style, Gate/Gateway, Grove, Ha-Ha/Sunk fence, Landscape Gardening, Lawn, Mall, Obelisk, Parterre, Piazza/Veranda/Porch/Portico, Picturesque, Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden, Quarter, Square, Statue, Temple, Wood/Woods

Associated Texts:
Carter II, Edward C., John C. Van Horne, and Charles E. Brownell. Latrobe’s View of America, 1795-1820: Selections from the Watercolors and Sketches. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Maryland Historical Society, 1985. view on Zotero

Hamlin, Talbot. Benjamin Henry Latrobe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. view on Zotero

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry. Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diaries and Sketches, 1818-1820. Edited by Samuel Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. view on Zotero

———. The Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1799-1820: From Philadelphia to New Orleans. Edited by Edward C. Carter II, John C. Van Horne, and Lee W. Formwalt. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980. view on Zotero

———. The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. 2 vols. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977. view on Zotero

Associated Images

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  Latrobe, Green Spring. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, Venus Flycatcher. The Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.

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  Latrobe, "View of the North Front of Belvidere, Richmond" (late 1790s). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "Horsdumonde, the House of Colonel Henry Skipwith, Cumberland County, Virginia" (June 14, 1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "View of Mount Vernon to the North" (July 17, 1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "View to the North from the Lawn at Mount Vernon" (1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "View of Mount Vernon looking towards the South West" (1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "Sketch of the House of Mr. Francis Eps on the Appomattox" (June 16, 1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, Sketch plan of serpentine walks at Mount Vernon (July 19, 1796). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "Sketch of Airy Plain, Estate" (1797). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "Sketch of Col'l. John Mayo's house at the Hermitage near Richmond, Virginia" (July 10, 1797). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, "York River, looking N.W. up to West Point" (1797). Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD.

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  Latrobe, House Plan With Gardens (c. 1798). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Garden temple/milkhouse: plan and elevation (1798-99). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Studies of Trees (1798-99). The Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.

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  Latrobe, "Taste. Anno 1620" (1799). The Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.

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  Latrobe, Studies of Trees (1799). The Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA.

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  Latrobe, Sedgeley (1799). Fairmount Park Commission, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.

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  Latrobe, "Principal Story of a Military School," 1800. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Military academy. North elevation, rendered (1800). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (1803). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Plan of the grounds of the White House (c. 1807). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, "View of the East front of the President's House, with the additions of the North & South Porticos" (1807). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, House, Richmond, Virginia. Site plan and landscaping. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, United States Capitol (c. 1814-20). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Plan of the Capitol Ground (1815). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, "General Plan of a Marine Asylum and Hospital proposed to be built at Washington" (1815-16). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, "Plan of the West end of the public appropriation in the city of Washington, called the Mall . . ." (1816). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, "Elevation of the South front of the President's house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807" (January 1817). Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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  Latrobe, Plan of the New Orleans, Louisiana Battleground [detail] (February 20, 1819).

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  Latrobe, "Plan of the public Square in the city of New Orleans, as proposed to be improved . . ." [detail] (March 20, 1819). Department of Public Works, New Orleans, LA.

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  Latrobe, General view of the Billiard Room, from the southeast (spring 1968). Photo by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard. HABS Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

References

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142786

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Latrobe

Architect of the Capitol website: http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/architects/latrobe.cfm/

University of Pennsylvania archives: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/latrobe_benj.html

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95858242/