© 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.

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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….

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)

All rights reserved. Published 2006.

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