biography
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Latrobe, Benjamin (Henry)
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pronunciation:
[latrohb]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1764–1820)
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| biography:
| Architect and civil engineer, born in Fulneck, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He trained in England with Cockerell, enjoying a successful practice there before emigrating to the USA (1795), where he introduced the Greek Revival style and was surveyor of public buildings in Washington, DC (1803–17). As an engineer he designed waterworks for the city of Philadelphia (1801), worked on the Washington navy yard, and joined with Robert Fulton in a scheme to build steamboats (1813–15). His most notable work is the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore (begun 1805). |
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