Latrobe architectural drawing archive (Library of Congress)

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Latrobe architectural drawing archive (Library of Congress)

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Title: Latrobe architectural drawing archive (Library of Congress)
Other Title: Benjamin Henry Latrobe archive
Benjamin Henry Latrobe architectural drawing archive
Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineering drawing archive
Latrobe collection
Creator(s): Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Related Names:
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 , client
Date Created/Published: 1795-1850, bulk 1795-1820.
Medium: whole collection 213 items.
211 chiefly architectural and engineering drawings ; various sizes, most in folders 71 x 102 cm. or smaller.
2 v., 41 leaves (30 architectural drawings); 54 x 38 cm. and 36 x 56 cm.
Summary: Primarily architectural and engineering drawings by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for residential buildings, government buildings, canals, monuments, bank buildings, military buildings, health care facilities, engines, and waterworks in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Among the designs represented in the archive are the U.S. Capitol, the White House, and Decatur House. Materials document various phases of the design process, from competition and presentation drawings to working drawings. The archive also includes landscape architecture drawings, interior design drawings, and naval architecture drawings, as well as architectural drawings formerly attributed to Latrobe.
Reproduction Number: ---
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Architectural and engineering drawings; Served by appointment only. For more information, see:(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.info.apptonly)
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized into 29 groups (called UNITs and LOTs), which are usually based on separate building projects. Arrangement: Arranged numerically according to the staff-assigned UNIT or LOT number. Each UNIT and LOT is cataloged in a separate record. Search for the heading "Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)" to see catalog records for the entire archive.
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe and his students were responsible for establishing professional standards in the field of architecture in the United States. The majority of his extant architectural and engineering drawings are represented in the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress), consisting of designs spanning his career in the United States until his departure from Washington, D.C., two years before he died. Born in England in 1764, Latrobe studied engineering with John Smeaton and architecture with Samuel Pepys Cockerell. He arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1796 to take possession of an inherited parcel of land in Pennsylvania. The following year he engaged his first major architectural work in this country, the Virginia State Penitentiary. By 1803, Latrobe's reputation was so well established that he was asked by President Jefferson to work on the U.S. Capitol in the position of Surveyor of the Public Buildings. The next year he began work on the design for the cathedral in Baltimore, considered by many to be his masterpiece. Concurrent to these undertakings, Latrobe worked on a major engineering project, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, before leaving in 1806. Because the War of 1812 interrupted the Capitol and cathedral building campaigns, Latrobe moved to Pittsburgh and became involved in steamboat-building with Robert Fulton until 1815, when he returned to Washington, D.C., to rebuild the war-damaged U.S. Capitol as Surveyor of the Capitol. He left his Capitol post in 1817, first to continue work in Baltimore, then to go to New Orleans in 1818, where his son had been overseeing his waterworks project and had died of yellow fever the previous year. Latrobe found further commissions in New Orleans, but died of yellow fever in 1820.
- Finding aid available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp021002
- A preliminary paper finding aid is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room, filed by UNIT number.
- Collection title devised by Library staff.
- Specific media or processes represented include graphite, ink, watercolor, and crayon.
- Publications: The engineering drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / edited with an introductory essay by Darwin H. Stapleton. New Haven, Conn.: Published for the Maryland Historical Society by Yale University Press, 1980.
- Publications: The architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell. New Haven: Published for the Maryland Historical Society and the American Philosophical Society by Yale University Press, 1994.
- Forms part of the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Papers, 1803-1817 (Library of Congress).
- Transfer; Architect of the Capitol; 1872.
- Permanent deposit; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1935.
- Gift; Capt. William Claiborne Latrobe; 1945.
- Gift; Mrs. Truxton Beale; 1955.
- Transfer; Geography and Map Division 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:134).
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- Guide Records
Part of: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. Benjamin Henry Latrobe papers, 1803-1817
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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: whole collection 213 items.
211 chiefly architectural and engineering drawings ; various sizes, most in folders 71 x 102 cm. or smaller.
2 v., 41 leaves (30 architectural drawings); 54 x 38 cm. and 36 x 56 cm.

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: whole collection 213 items.
211 chiefly architectural and engineering drawings ; various sizes, most in folders 71 x 102 cm. or smaller.
2 v., 41 leaves (30 architectural drawings); 54 x 38 cm. and 36 x 56 cm.
Access Advisory: Architectural and engineering drawings; Served by appointment only. For more information, see: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.info.apptonly

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