Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was a British subject and neoclassical architect. Latrobe was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the new United States, drawing 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., after which he performed later work on the Old Baltimore CathedralThe Baltimore Basilica, . It is the first Roman Catholic Cathedral constructed in the United States. 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 and was completed in 1820 after five years of work and endured into the early 20th Century.
Latrobe was born on May 1, 1764, at the Fulneck Moravian Settlement, near Pudsey in the city of Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. His parents were the Reverend Benjamin Latrobe, a leader of the Moravian Church who was of Huguenot ancestry, and Anna Margaretta Antes to a German father and maternal Dutch descent. Antes was born in the American colony of Pennsylvania, but was sent to England by her father, a wealthy landowner, to attend a Moravian school at Fulneck.
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