Federal Period Architecture

Thomas Jefferson and the French Influence Early American Classicism

" How is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation?...You see, I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile them to the rest of the world, and procure them its praise." - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA,

** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA,

Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vincenza, Italy,c

Lord Burlington,Chiswick House, 1729, England

Antoine Rousseau, Hotel de Salm, Paris, France

** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA,

** Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,

Thomas Jefferson, UVA, East Pavilion from The Lawn,

Robert Adam

Robert Adam, Etruscan Room, Osterly Park, Middlesex, England, c. 1770s

**Charles Bullfinch, Harrison Gray Otis House (#1), Boston, MA,

Samuel McIntire, Pierce-Nichols House, Salem, MA, 1782

**Samuel McIntire, Gardner-Pingree House (Essex Institute), Salem, MA, 1810

**Charles Bullfinch, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MS,

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Bank of Pennsylvania, Phildelphia, PA,

**Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Baltimore Basilica (The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Baltimore, MD,

Latrobe’s cross section of the Basilica

**John Hoban, White House North Façade, 1792, Washington, DC

**William Thornton, U.S. Capitol, East elevation, 1794, Washington, DC

Benjamin Latrobe, corn column design and detail, U.S. Capitol, 1806

Charles Bulfinch, U.S. Capitol, East Façade (Drawing by William Pratt, c. 1839), Washington, DC