Following my research on Richmond’s South Cathedral Place, I was assigned a topic that had led many previous researchers to dead end after dead end: a long-demolished Richmond structure attributed to our country’s first professionally trained architect and first Architect of the Capitol, B. Henry Latrobe. Latrobe could be considered an architectural historian’s ultimate celebrity [...]
Tag: Architectural Drawings
Illustrations: The Biography and Design of Latrobe’s “Clifton”
Clifton Illustrations View more documents from Jessica Bankston
CAD Drawings of Cathedral Row
Appendix F: CAD Floorplans View more documents from Jessica Bankston
Matching carriages in Latrobe perspectives
Latrobe made his presentation perspective on the "Clifton" house on this particular piece of ground just come to life. Just as he had done with previous, important presentation drawings for residential commissions such as the Pennock House or Sedgeley Villa, he depicted the owners of the home engaged in some activity, and even illustrated the [...]
The Original Clifton Drawings at Library of Congress
Spring break is past now and it seems I have been all too lax in reporting my research findings. Prior to the break I took a trip up to Washington, D.C. to visit the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs Division, where the original Clifton drawings are preserved and housed in cold storage. My appointment [...]