Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . nt by designingtheir own houses was Washington himself. A native amateur of far wider activityand of great influence was Charles Bulfinch, who introduced the new style in NewEngland after his youthful European travels. Other amateurs in architecture todesign important domestic buildings were of foreign birth: the French engineerLEnfant and the versatile Doctor William Thornton. As the century drew to a close men of professional training in architecture firstappeared in America. The earliest came from abroad: James Hoban
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . nt by designingtheir own houses was Washington himself. A native amateur of far wider activityand of great influence was Charles Bulfinch, who introduced the new style in NewEngland after his youthful European travels. Other amateurs in architecture todesign important domestic buildings were of foreign birth: the French engineerLEnfant and the versatile Doctor William Thornton. As the century drew to a close men of professional training in architecture firstappeared in America. The earliest came from abroad: James Hoban from Ireland,and Stephen Hallet from France in 1789; Benjamin Henry Latrobe from Englandin 1796. Americans joined them as time went on. Bulfinch became a professionalin the nature and extent of his practice if not in training; Robert Mills, after 1800, 1 Thomas Jefferson and the First Monument of the Classic Revival in America (1915), esp. p. 48;Thomas Jefferson, Architect, esp. p. 42; The Bank of Pennsylvania, Architectural Record, vol. 44 (1918),esp- pp. I33-I37- I46. Figure 109. Plans of the Woodlands, Philadelphia, as remodelled, 1788From measured drawings by Ogden Codman.
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