latrobe

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noun 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)

After the inventor, I. Latrobe of Baltimore.

LATROBE--Stern-wheel; built at Brownsville, Pa., 1853; 159 tons; at St. Paul from St. Louis, 1855. — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick
“Our only difficulty,” says Mr. Latrobe, one of the judges, “was in selecting from the rich contents of the volume.” During the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia and New York. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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