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Latrobe   /lɑtrˈoʊb/   Listen
Latrobe

noun
1.
United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820).  Synonym: Benjamin Henry Latrobe.






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"Latrobe" Quotes from Famous Books



... leading up the summit have been observed. In 1824 Bullock (who, however, is not regarded as a very accurate observer) "found the whole mountain had been covered with palaces, temples, baths, hanging-gardens, and so forth." Latrobe, somewhat later, found "fragments of pottery and broken pieces of obsidian knives and arrows; pieces of stucco, shattered terraces, and old walls were thickly dispersed over its whole surface." Mr. Mayer, after speaking of the abundance ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen



Words linked to "Latrobe" :   designer, architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe



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