Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe was a British-American neoclassical architect who lived from 1764 to 1820 and immigrated to the United States. He was one of the first formally trained professional architects to arrive in the newly independent United States, drawing on influences from his travels in Italy and on British and French Neoclassical architects such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux. In his thirties he immigrated to the United States and designed the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as well as the Old Baltimore Cathedral, later renamed the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the largest structure in America at the time, the Merchants' Exchange in Baltimore.