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© 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press.

This book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of The American Philosophical Society; The Architectural History Foundation; The Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation; The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; The J. M. Kaplan Fund; Mississippi State University and its College of Architecture, Art and Design; The National Endowment for the Arts; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The National Trust for Historic Preservation; and The University of Cincinnati.

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Book design by Robert L. Wiser, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Frontispiece. Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Charles Willson Peale (White House Collection; courtesy of White House Historical Association)

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Book design by Robert L. Wiser, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Frontispiece. Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Charles Willson Peale (White House Collection; courtesy of White House Historical Association)

Reinterpreting Latrobe

Learning the Profession... Latrobe in the London Office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell

Hammerwood and Ashdown... Latrobe's English Country Houses and the Architectural Avant-Garde of the 1790s

Reinventing the American House... An Overview of Latrobe's Design Theories and Architectural Practice in a New Country

Houses for the Virginia Landed Gentry (1795-1798) ... Latrobe's First Explorations of the American Context

Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807) ... Designs for a Merchant Elite, Countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the Emergence of the Rational House

A Capital City and an Expanding Democracy (1807-1815) ... Houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh

Last Houses (1815-1820) ... Latrobe' Final Years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans

Some Perspectives on an Architect's Career...

Preservation History of Latrobe's Houses and Notes on the Vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde....

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 > Criticism and interpretation.

Architecture, Domestic > United States.

Architecture, Domestic > England.

Architecture, United States > 18th century.

Architecture, United States > 19th century.

Architecture, England > 18th century.