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A crucial point in Latrobes career came in 1803, when President Jefferson appointed him surveyor of the public buildings in the United States, which was the most important architectural position in the country. For the next eight years Latrobe would be concerned with the completion of the Capitol. These were years filled with heavy responsibilities, frustrations, and very considerable achievements(Norton 1987, 24). At the start he had been instructed to fallow the plans for the Capitol drawn up by a gentleman architect, William Thornton. Only the north wing had been completed by Thornton and Latrobe at first glance considered it functionally inadequate, badly constructed, and aesthetically deficient. As to the south wing and central structure that remained to be built, there was little exact evidence of what Thornton had in mind, and he was contemptuously unresponsive to Latrobes questions to him on the subject (Carter 1981, 32). Latrobe completed the job and it is all attributed to his stubborn persistence in the face or shortages, labor, and materials. Congress was impatient with the slow progress and the rising costs of the building, the president recommended wooden columns for the house of representatives to save both time and money. But Latrobe refused to consider wooden columns. He believed that the building must be an enduring and monumental symbol of the

United states to provide a neat solution to a problem that would grow larger with time to accommodate the new machinery to the architecture (Hamlin 1955, 14-15).

Latrobe was a great man. He was a man of insight and greatly advanced archetectual ability. He completed the Bank of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia water works, the Capitol and many more public and private buildings. He was the first architect in america to use the Greek style in architecture. He is known to be the architect that triggered the Greek Revival and also influence future architects for year and years to come. Latrobe was a well rounded man, he was not only an architect but also an engineer. He was also a linguist and spoke over a half dozen

different languages. With all these different talents he was able to provide America with many different masterpeices of his abilty. All the work that he has done shows that he built buildings that were enduring and a monumental symbol of the nation's destiny. He showed his fellow Americans that he was proud to be and american and that he sh

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