1. Federal Period Architecture 1785-1830

2. Thomas Jefferson and the French Influence Early American Classicism

3. " 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

4. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, VA, 1785-8

6. ** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1769-1784

9. Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vincenza, Italy,c.1566-70

10. Lord Burlington,Chiswick House, 1729, England

11. Antoine Rousseau, Hotel de Salm, Paris, France 1782-1787

12. ** Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1769-1784

18. ** Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1817-26

25. Thomas Jefferson, UVA, East Pavilion from The Lawn, 1817-22

27. Robert Adam

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

40. **Charles Bullfinch, Harrison Gray Otis House (#1), Boston, MA, 1795-6

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

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

55. **Charles Bullfinch, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MS, 1795-98

61. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Bank of Pennsylvania, Phildelphia, PA, 1798-1800

62. **Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Baltimore Basilica (The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Baltimore, MD, 1804-1821

63. Latrobe’s cross section of the Basilica

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

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

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

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