Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

An English émigré who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall.



As a young man, Latrobe was apprenticed to both a leading architect and civil engineer in London, studied the Europe...