Introduction: 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's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans

Some perspectives on an architect's career

Epilogue: A 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.