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  1. Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was an Anglo-American neoclassical architect who immigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained, professional architects in the new United States, drawing on influences from his travels in Italy, as well as British and French Neoclassical architects ...

  2. Apr 30, 2024 · Benjamin Latrobe was a British-born architect and civil engineer who established architecture as a profession in the United States. Latrobe was the most original proponent of the Greek Revival style in American building. Latrobe attended the Moravian college at Niesky, Saxony, and traveled in.

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  4. He is honored as the second Architect of the Capitol. Born in 1764 near Leeds, England, Latrobe studied architecture under Samuel Pepys Cockerell and engineering under John Smeaton. He emigrated in 1796 and began his American career in Virginia before settling in Philadelphia.

  5. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an architect and engineer, came to the United States from France in 1795 and devoted the remainder of his life to designing the infrastructure for the young country. Latrobe was trained under John Smeaton , who designed the Eddystone Lighthouse and was England's most renowned engineer of the time.

  6. Penn Connection. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was born in England in 1764. The son of a Moravian clergyman, Latrobe traveled to Germany for a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences. After his return to England, he held several minor government posts and worked as an engineer and surveyor, and later he turned to architecture.

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