The United States Capitol,often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building,is the seat of the United States Congress,the legislative branch of the federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington,D.C. Although no longer at the geographic center of the city of Washington,the Capitol forms the origin point for the street-numbering system of the district as well as its four quadrants.
Daniel Chester French was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord,Massachusetts,and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,D.C.
Robert Mills was a South Carolina architect and cartographer known for designing both the first Washington Monument,located in Baltimore,Maryland,as well as the better known monument to the first president in the nation's capital,Washington,DC. He is sometimes said to be the first native-born American to be professionally trained as an architect. Charles Bulfinch of Boston perhaps has a clearer claim to this honor.
William Strickland was a noted architect and civil engineer in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,and Nashville,Tennessee. A student of Benjamin Latrobe and mentor to Thomas Ustick Walter,Strickland helped establish the Greek Revival movement in the United States. A pioneering engineer,he wrote a seminal book on railroad construction,helped build several early American railroads,and designed the first ocean breakwater in the Western Hemisphere. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1820.
Edward Clark was an American architect who served as Architect of the Capitol from 1865 to 1902.
John Notman was a Scottish-born American architect and landscape architect based in Philadelphia. He designed buildings,cemeteries,churches and country estates in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and helped popularize Italianate architecture in the United States.
Ammi Burnham Young was a 19th-century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Neo-Renaissance styles. His design of the second Vermont State House brought him fame and success,which eventually led him to become the first Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department. As federal architect,he was responsible for creating across the United States numerous custom houses,post offices,courthouses and hospitals,many of which are today on the National Register. His traditional architectural forms lent a sense of grandeur and permanence to the new country's institutions and communities. Young pioneered the use of iron in construction.
Samuel Sloan was a Philadelphia-based architect and best-selling author of architecture books in the mid-19th century. He specialized in Italianate villas and country houses,churches,and institutional buildings. His most famous building—the octagonal mansion "Longwood" in Natchez,Mississippi—is unfinished;construction was abandoned during the American Civil War.
William Everhart was an entrepreneur and wealthy businessman from Pennsylvania. He was responsible for developing much of West Chester and stimulating its economic growth. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855.
John Fraser was a Scottish-born American architect who practiced in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania and Washington,D.C.
Addison Hutton (1834–1916) was a Philadelphia architect who designed prominent residences in Philadelphia and its suburbs,plus courthouses,hospitals,and libraries,including the Ridgway Library,now Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts,and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He made major additions to the campuses of Westtown School,George School,Swarthmore College,Bryn Mawr College,Haverford College,and Lehigh University.
Wilson Brothers &Company was a prominent Victorian-era architecture and engineering firm based in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. The company was regarded for its structural expertise.
The Newkirk Viaduct Monument is a 15-foot (4.6 m) white marble obelisk in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1839 to mark the completion of the Newkirk Viaduct,the first permanent railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River. It is inscribed with the names of 51 railroad builders and executives,among other information.
The Chester County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in the county seat of West Chester,Chester County,Pennsylvania. It was built in 1846 at a cost of $55,346 and was designed by Thomas U. Walter. Walter also designed the dome of the United States Capitol. An addition,designed by T. Roney Williamson and constructed from Indiana Limestone,was added in 1893. Another addition was added in 1966.
First Presbyterian Church of West Chester is a historic Presbyterian church located at 130 W. Miner Street in West Chester,Chester County,Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1832 by Thomas U. Walter,who later became the fourth Architect of the Capitol. The church is a stuccoed stone building measuring 75 feet long and 45 feet wide in the Greek Revival style. Additions were built in 1860 and 1955. The front facade features a recessed porch flanked by two projections with pilasters.
Portico Row is a set of sixteen historic rowhouses located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Matthew Newkirk was an American businessman,railroad magnate,banker and philanthropist. He was president of the Philadelphia,Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PW&B) and led the integration of four railroad companies to establish the first direct rail service between Philadelphia and Baltimore. He was a director of the Second Bank of the United States;and an investor in the Little Schuylkill Navigation,Railroad and Coal Company and the Cambria Iron Company.
Thomas Hannah (1867–1935) was a Scottish-American architect based in Pittsburgh in the United States. He is credited with designing the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. He also designed the Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. He also designed Midtown Towers,originally known as the Keenan Building and built in 1907. It was built for Colonel Thomas J. Keenan,owner and founder of the Penny Press,which became Pittsburgh Press. The building may have been modeled after the Spreckel Building/ Call Building (1898) of San Francisco. It is decorated with visages of 10 notables associated with Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania,including then-mayor George Guthrie and then-governor Edwin Stuart,in addition to George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt. The dome was once capped with the figure of an eagle in flight.
Tabb Street Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Petersburg,Virginia. It was designed by architect Thomas Ustick Walter and built in 1843,in the Greek Revival style. It has stucco covered brick walls and features a massive Greek Doric order pedimented peristyle portico consisting of six fluted columns and full entablature. It has two full stories and a gallery. A three-story rear brick wing was added in 1944.
