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Benjamin Henry Latrobe

1764 - 1820

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Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 – September 3, 1820) was a British-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 such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux. In his thirties, he immigrated to the new United States and designed the United States Capitol, on "Capitol Hill" in Washington, D.C., as well as the Old Baltimore Cathedral or The Baltimore Basilica, (later renamed the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Henry Latrobe has received more than 305,395 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Benjamin Henry Latrobe is the 447th most popular architect (down from 427th in 2019), the 3,953rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,017th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Benjamin Henry Latrobe ranks 447 out of 518. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, Nicholas Grimshaw, Anne Lacaton, Robert Moses, Toros Toramanian, and Kiyonori Kikutake. After him are Friedrich Ludwig Persius, Alejandro Aravena, Ryue Nishizawa, Enric Miralles, Charles Robert Cockerell, and Ferdinand Boberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1764, Benjamin Henry Latrobe ranks 31. Before him are János Bihari, Josef Abel, Henriette Herz, Edward Livingston, John Mawe, and William Pinkney. After him are Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Carl Fredrik Fallén, Johann Wilhelm Meigen, and Mary Lamb. Among people deceased in 1820, Benjamin Henry Latrobe ranks 39. Before him are Alexis Thérèse Petit, Louise Caroline of Hochberg, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Charles Blagden, Stephen Decatur, and Claudine Picardet. After him are Palisot de Beauvois, Levi Lincoln Sr., William Wyatt Bibb, William Ellery, and Henry Grattan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Henry Latrobe ranks 3,953 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Barry Foster (1931), Florence Pugh (1996), Simon Gallup (1960), Billy Hughes (1862), and Elton Dean (1945). After him are Matthew Goode (1978), Liam Howlett (1971), Edward Carpenter (1844), Henry Liddell (1811), Michael Giles (1942), and Charles Howard Hinton (1853).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Henry Latrobe ranks 30. Before him are Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900), Peter Cook (1936), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Edward Blore (1787), and Nicholas Grimshaw (1939). After him are Charles Robert Cockerell (1788), Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661), Kenneth Frampton (1930), Richard Knill Freeman (1840), James Wyatt (1746), and William Burges (1827).

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