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In 1792, Dr. William Thornton 's depiction of a grand, two-winged structure topped by a central dome won a public competition for the design of the U.S. Capitol Building (U.S. Capitol). Today, Thornton is credited as the first " Architect of the Capitol ." Construction of the U.S. Capitol began when President George Washington set the building ...
William Thornton (1759-1828) was the first architect of the U.S. Capitol, and an inventor and public official as well. He was born in Tortola, British West Indies, and died in Washington. In addition to designing the Capitol, Thornton also designed the Octagon and Tudor Place in Georgetown, Washington.
May 23, 2018 · Thornton, William (1759–1828). Born in the British West Indies, he studied medicine at Edinburgh and became an American citizen in 1788. He designed the Library Company Building, Philadelphia, PA (1789–90—destroyed), based on a plate in volume 2 of Abraham Swan's (fl.1745–c.1770) Collection of Designs in Architecture (1757), and in 1792 prepared drawings for the competition to design ...
In its present state the United States Capitol exhibits four distinct architectural minds at work, those of its original designer, William Thornton; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the architect responsible for erecting the major portion of the first building; Charles Bulfinch, responsible for redesigning and carrying out the central section including the rotunda; and Thomas U. Walter, the architect ...
William Thornton: Architect of Tudor Place Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect and a friend to the Peter family. He designed the house as we know it today and in his plans, Thornton expressed Palladio’s forms in a distinctly Federal, American style, melding ...
The first Architect of the Capitol, William Thornton, was raised in England and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Dr. Thornton traveled extensively on a study tour in Europe before briefly practicing medicine in Philadelphia (1786-1790) where he met and married Anna Maria Brodeau. William Thornton, 1804.
Feb 9, 2019 · Price: In 1793, President George Washington selected physician, painter, and architect Dr. William Thornton's design for the U.S. Capitol building. National Portrait Gallery curator emerita Ellen ...
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