Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Født		Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe 1. mai 1764 Fulneck Moravian Settlement
Død		3. sep. 1820 (56 år) New Orleans
Beskjeftigelse		Arkitekt, sivilingeniør, naturviter, kunstmaler, tegner, ingeniør
Embete		Architect of the Capitol (1803–1811) Architect of the Capitol (1815–1817)
Utdannet ved		Fulneck School
Far		Benjamin La Trobe
Søsken		Christian Ignatius Latrobe Johann Friedrich La Trobe Mary Agnes La Trobe
Barn		Benjamin Henry Latrobe II Henry Sellon Boneval Latrobe John H. B. Latrobe Lydia Sellon La Trobe
Nasjonalitet		USA Kongeriket Storbritannia
Gravlagt		Louisiana Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 (sammen med: Henry Sellon Boneval Latrobe)
Medlem av		American Philosophical Society (1799–) American Antiquarian Society
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Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (født 1. mai 1764 ved Fulneck i West Yorkshire i England, død 3. september 1820 i New Orleans i Louisiana i USA) var en britiskfødt amerikansk arkitekt. Han er best kjent som en av arkitektene bak oppføringen av Kongressbygningen i Washington, og en rekke andre byggverk som konstituerte en amerikansk form for klassisistisk arkitektur. Han omtales som «amerikansk arkitekturs far».

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• Addison, Agnes (juli 1942). «Latrobe vs. Strickland». The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 2 (3): 26–29. doi:10.2307/901161. 
• Burchard, John; Bush-Brown, Albert (1966). The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History. Little, Brown. 
• Carter II, Edward C. (1971–1972). «Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Growth and Development of Washington, 1798–1818». Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 
• The Architectural Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Yale University Press. 1995. 
• Crook, Joseph Mordaunt (1972). The Greek Revival: Neo-Classical Attitudes in British Architecture 1760–1870. John Murray. ISBN 0-7195-2724-4. 
• Donaldson, Gary A. (1987). «Bringing Water to the Crescent City: Benjamin Latrobe and the New Orleans Waterworks System». Louisiana History. Louisiana Historical Association. 28 (4): 381–396. PMID 11617566. 
• Dumbauld, Edward (1980). «Thomas Jefferson and the City of Washington». Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 50. 
• Fazio, Michael W.; Snadon, Patrick A. (2006). The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8104-8. 
• Fazio, Michael W. (September 1989). «Benjamin Latrobe's Designs for a Lighthouse at the Mouth of the Mississippi River». The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 48 (3): 232–247. JSTOR 990429. doi:10.2307/990429. 
• Formwalt, Lee W. (1980). «Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Transportation in the District of Columbia, 1802–1817». Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 50. 
• Formwalt, Lee W. (Oktober 1977). «An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796–1798». The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society. 85 (4): 387–410. 
• Formwalt, Lee W. (1979). «Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Development of Internal Improvements in the New Republic, 1796–1820». Ayer Publishing / Catholic University of America. 
• Frary, Ihna Thayer (1969). They Built the Capitol. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 0-8369-5089-5. 
• Hamlin, Talbot (1955). Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Oxford University Press. 
• Hamlin, Talbot (1944). Greek Revival Architecture in America: Being an Account of Important Trends in American Architecture and American Life Prior to the War Between the States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-486-21148-7. 
• Kennedy, Roger G. (1989). Orders from France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780–1820. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-55592-9. 
• Kimball, Fiske (1922). Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-486-41705-0. 
• Klotter, James C. and Daniel Rowland, eds. Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792–1852 (University Press of Kentucky; 2012) 371 pages; emphasis on Benjamin Henry Latrobe and "neoclassical" Lexington
• Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (1905). The Journal of Latrobe. D. Appleton & Company. ISBN 0-917860-21-7. 
• Norton, Paul F. (Juni 1951). «Latrobe and Old West at Dickenson College». The Art Bulletin. 33 (2): 125–132. JSTOR 3047345. doi:10.2307/3047345. 
• Norton, Paul F. (1977). Latrobe, Jefferson, and the National Capitol. Garland Pub. ISBN 0-8240-2716-7. 
• Peterson, Charles E. (Desember 1953). «Early Prisons». The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 12 (4): 26–31. doi:10.2307/987648. 
• Roth, Leland M. (2001). American Architecture. Westview Press. 
• Stapleton, Darwin H.; Carter II, Edward C. (September 1984). «"I have the itch of Botany, of Chemistry, of Mathematics...strong upon me": the Science of Benjamin Henry Latrobe». Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. American Philosophical Society. 128 (3): 173–192. PMID 11615972. 
• Summerson, John (1993). Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830: 1530–1830. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05886-1. 
• Tatum, George B. (1961). Penn's Great Town: 250 Years of Philadelphia Architecture Illustrated in Prints and Drawings. University of Pennsylvania Press. 
• Woods, Mary N. (2004). «Chapter 6, The First Professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe». I Eggener, Keith. American Architectural History. Routledge. ISBN 3-7757-1406-5.