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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #7fc8aa90-cf51-11eb-a8fa-33e0b1df654c VID: #(null) IP: 116.202.236.252 Date and time: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:50:50 GMT. Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was born in 1764 at Fulneck in Yorkshire. He was the Second son of the Reverend Benjamin Latrobe (1728 - 86), a minister of the , and Anna Margaretta (Antes) Latrobe (1728 - 94), a third generation Pennsylvanian of Moravian Parentage. The original Latrobes had been French who had settled in Ireland at the end of the 17th Century. Whilst he is most noted for his work on The and the Capitol in Washington, he introduced the Greek Revival as the style of American National architecture. He built cathedral, not only the first Roman Catholic Cathedral in America but also the first vaulted church and is, perhaps, Latrobes finest monument. Park achieves importance as his first complete work, the first of only two in this country and one of only five remaining domestic buildings by Latrobe in existence. It was built as a temple to Apollo, dedicated as a hunting lodge to celebrate the arts and incorporating elements related to Demeter, mother Earth, in relation to the contemporary agricultural revolution. Latrobe was a master exponent of symbolism. Hammerwood's composition displays all of Latrobe's latent genius which he took to the States, designing both the house and the park as an essay in perspective as well as the picturesque. In this, Latrobe's work at Hammerwood achieves perfection. In 1997, the Heritage Lottery Fund enabled the purchase by the Latrobe Heritage Trust of Latrobe's first perspective drawing of "Hammerwood Lodge". We hope to be inserting further details on this page. The drawing is extraordinary in that it relates both to and Ashdown House as built, Latrobe's conception of the South of teh White House and his 1808 drawing of The Capitol in Washington. Watch this space and bookmark this page! Come and visit or stay during the summer. Click here to see the White House web pages Click here to see the Capitol Latrobe web pages Latrobe's Doric Revival at Hammerwood Park, Thesis by Michael Trinder MA, Cambridge University - Click here for a tour. Click here to return to Hammerwood Park Home page. Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764 - 1820) - Background. Anne-Noelle Pinnegar, BA. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was born in 1764 at Fulneck in Yorkshire. He was the second son of the Reverend Benjamin Latrobe (1728-86), a minister of the Moravian church, and Anna Margaretta (Antes) Latrobe (1728-94), a third- generation Pennsylvanian of Moravian parentage. The original Latrobes had been French Protestants who had settled in Ireland at the end of the 17th century. The young Latrobe was educated at the Moravian schools at Fulneck and later at Nieski in German Silesia. His education was impressive, comprising a broad curriculum including all the liberal arts, classical and modern languages. Having rejected the ministry as a possible career, Latrobe finally travelled back to in 1783 on a Grand Tour of Germany and (where he was much struck by the grand Classicist buildings of ). He also travelled to and , although this may have been on a later trip in 1786. By 1784 Latrobe had returned to London where he was employed for a time as a clerk at the Stamp Office. By around 1787, however, Latrobe had begun his professional training under England's most renowned engineer of the day - (1724-92), the designer of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Here Latrobe acquired a thorough grounding in both the technical and theoretical aspects of advanced English civil engineering, including the meticulous draughtsmanship in which he excelled throughout his life. Latrobe's interest in engineering soon led him to develop an interest in architecture (it was not uncommon during the 18th century for the two disciplines to be practised in parallel by one individual) and he became apprenticed to S.R. Cockerell (1754-1827) who was then engaged in designing public works, such as the house for the First Lord of the Admiralty in Whitehall. Latrobe gained further invaluable experience and rapid advancement, actually managing the office in 1791-2. By this association, Latrobe was immediately drawn into the orbit of England's three most advanced architects: Cockerell himself, (1741- 1825) and Sir (1753-1837), the latter's work being particularly influential on Latrobe. English architecture of the period can be divided into three distinct styles. The oldest school was the strict Palladianism of Sir William Chambers, inspired by Palladio himself, as well as other masters of the Italian Renaissance via the earlier English architects William Kent and Burlington, as Latrobe would have seen in Chamber's recently completed design of the grand governmental commission at Somerset House. The second school, that of the Adam brothers, was just passing its height but was still popular. The style was definitely Roman in origin, being characterised by its brilliant use of functional space as well as its decorative detail, which Latrobe found to be over-rich. Latrobe belonged, rather, to the third school (sometimes called the 'plain style') the work of which was characterized by simplicity, geometric power and rationalism. George Dance the Younger was its originator, but it was in the work of Sir John Soane (whose masterpiece is the Bank of England) that this movement achieved its great triumphs. This was regarded as the most radical in tone, both aesthetically and politically, and it appealed especially to those who were to follow Charles James Fox and show marked sympathy for the French Revolution. It was definitely a Francophile style and in many ways paralleled the revolutionary architecture parlante as expounded by Ledoux. Latrobe and Hammerwood Lodge (now called Hammerwood Park) Near the end of his service with Cockerell, Latrobe was made surveyor to the London Police (c. 1792), a minor official appointment involving the supervision of renovation and repair of a number of district police stations. Around this time, shortly after his marriage to Lydia Sellon (c.1761-1793), the daughter of a wealthy Anglican clergyman, Latrobe opened his own office, and was soon getting enough work, mainly alteration jobs, to enable him to employ at least one apprentice. Latrobe's reputation grew rapidly and he received commissions for some new residences, the first of which came through a Mr John Sperling, of Dynes Hall in , who asked Latrobe to design him a hunting lodge at Hammerwood, . Latrobe's only other English house also survives - Ashdown House at - which he designed the following year, 1793, for a Mr Fuller. Hammerwood Lodge and Ashdown House are the only two surviving English domestic houses by Latrobe. Evidence that Latrobe designed Hammerwood for John Sperling in 1792 may be seen in the ancient Greek inscription situated high up on the reverse of the capitals of the west portico: GREEK TEXT: THC. TOY I​ANNOY C​EP​IN​OY E​AY​E​C. ​PO​ TY​H ​P​TH. APXITEKT​N ​ATPOBE. E​OIE TON A​B ENEAYTON. IHCOY XPICTOY KAI. TON. ​E Y TEPON THC XMB. O​YMPIA​AC. ['This is the first portico of John Sperling's mansion (but word used = Cattlefold: see Trinder's Thesis). The architect is B.H. Latrobe. He made it in the 1792 year of Jesus Christ and the second year of the 642nd Olympiad'.] There is no better account of Latrobe's achievement at Hammerwood than that of his biographer, Talbot Hamlin: 'Hammerwood achieves importance as a monument in Latrobe's career when it is realized (if we can believe the architect's obituary in Ackermann's Repository) that it was his first independent work. According to Ackermann: "While pursuing his studies at home, he was visited by a friend, Mr Sperling, who, finding him disengaged [apparently he had already resigned from the Cockerell firm], and admiring his growing talents, commissioned him to design and build for him a mansion near , to be called Hammerwood Lodge. " '[Hammerwood's] exterior reveals a basic desire to tear open the usual conventions of 18th century country house design, to use new forms and old forms strangely, to create drama - almost wonder - for the observer. In places it harks back to the stark power of Vanbrugh; in others it looks forward to the Greek Revival.' 'It has a great main body five bays wide, with heavy Doric pilasters for the​ central pavilion; between these the three central windows under recessed arches are crowded in with only hairline jambs. The frieze - again a plain band (except over the pilasters) - is much heavier than ancient precedent would suggest, as though its designer were after the colossal in scale even in a country house, and above rises an attic as quietly powerful as the rest. A slightly projecting band course separates the two lower floors, and the recessed arches are without architraves or mouldings.' 'The two wings that flank the central block are even more unusual in design. Here the lower floor consists of arcades of narrow arches, with a window in each, and is terminated at the end by a primitive Greek Doric temple porch carrying a pediment. The upper floor has simple rectangular windows, those over the arcade treated as a single band with recessed piers. ' 'Thus Hammerwood Lodge is a strikingly interesting whole, full of awkwardness but of daring imagination as well; it is complicated in composition, but every detail has been reduced to the basic simplicity of the 'plain style'. Its virtues, like its faults, are those of youth, enthusiasm, and a violent search for originality. We may be astonished at the introduction of Greek Doric end pavilions at this date - that is unusual enough - but we also find something even rarer: Greek inspiration used with surprising freedom. The capitals have the broad spread of the primitive Doric of or Sicily, and they have fluted neckings; but the entablature above combines frieze and architrave into one single broad band without triglyphs or metopes. It is Greek, but not Greek taken from Leroy or Stuart; it is Greek seen through the eyes of, and interpreted with, the taste one would expect from a Soane.' 'The whole, in other words, is entirely Latrobe's - in its unconventional scale, its search for drama, its use of ancient inspiration in an original manner, and its basic drive towards simplification of details. It shows Latrobe already expressing, albeit in an unformed, youthful way, almost all the ideals that were his guiding principles in his mature designs.' Latrobe and the Greek Revival Latrobe's life-long interest in probably began during early travels on the Continent and his trip to - he visited Rome and Naples in either 1783 or 1786. These first-hand experiences were to give him a wide visual repertoire of architectural forms upon which he drew inspiration throughout his long and illustrious career. Latrobe had mastered classical and modern languages at school, a fact which would have much enriched his travels. In addition, throughout his apprenticeship in C.R. Cockerell's office, Latrobe would have come into contact with the leading architectural theories of the day, including the enthusiastic transformation of modern design through imitation of the forms and principles of the antique. A renewed interest in the art and architecture of antiquity had taken place throughout the 18th century, partly because it became increasingly fashionable for aristocrats and gentlemen-scholars to undertake the Grand Tour - a long and sometimes hazardous journey which included the major European cities and culminated in Italy or Greece. In addition, the impact of the re-discovery and excavation of certain important classical sites could not have escaped a young ambitious architect such as Latrobe. By the time of his architectural apprenticeship in 1789, there were numerous publications available containing scaled drawings of newly-discovered sites or ruins. Thomas Major published his book entitled The Ruins of Paestum in 1768; James Stuart (1713-88) and Nicholas Revett (1720-1804) were sponsored by The Society of Dilettanti to undertake a major expedition of some of the major monuments of Greece and they published volume I of the Antiquities of Athens in 1762; volume II was published in 1789 and volume III in 1794. Such works undoubtedly brought a new and more vital appreciation of the proportions, character and decoration of ancient classical architecture to England. Latrobe - After Hammerwood The only other remaining independent work by Latrobe in England is at Ashdown House (now a prep school) some two miles to the south of Hammerwood, near Forest Row. Latrobe worked on this house in 1793, the year after he designed Hammerwood. It has been described as a feminine version of Hammerwood's central block, and Talbot Hamlin perceptively outlines its main architectural features: 'Ashdown, of stone, is almost a square house, three bays wide and deep, entered through a semicircular porch of four Greek Ionic columns. The front is broken into three parts vertically, and this division is emphasized by carrying an attic storey over the ends alone, with only a parapet above the central element. The centre is stressed by framing the second-floor window with deliberately projecting plaster strips that carry up to the frieze, but there is no break in the frieze itself. The tall windows flanking the porch are set in recessed arches. Throughout, the influence of the 'plain style' makes itself felt. The cornice is thin and delicate, the frieze an unbroken band; in the attic the base and cap are formed by mere projecting bands of stone. Within, too, the detail is of the simplest type, though the parlour doors are of rich mahogany.' Talbot Hamlin sums up the contrasting characters of Ashdown House and Hammerwood: 'Ashdown House, the later of the two, is the more polished and more completely achieved, but Hammerwood Lodge is the more dynamic, full as it​ is of violently experimental forms.' The death of Latrobe's first wife, Lydia, in childbirth in 1793; the detrimental financial consequences of the pre-Revolutionary instabilities in France and, around this time, the death of Latrobe's mother who left the young architect some land in were, no doubt, all factors which prompted him to emigrate to the in 1795. There's a story too that Latrobe was involved in the intelligence service, the beginnings of MI5, in connexion with the French Revolution, that he refused to do a dirty deed for his boss, one Henry Dundas, who had him framed and that Latrobe jumped onto a boat to come to America just 10 days before a hearing to commit him to prison for bankruptcy. Latrobe's prolific American career can be divided chronologically into the geographical areas in which he worked: (1796-98); (1798-1801); Washington (1802-09); and (1810-20). Within these categories, his work may be divided into a) domestic architecture b) civic architecture and c) engineering works - from which he derived his principal income. Latrobe introduced a new professionalism within the American architectural practice. His approach to building was comprehensive, and he took account of, and supervised, every functional and aesthetic requirement of the new buildings he designed, including such details as acoustics and interior design. Stylistically, his predilection for the Greek Revival appealed to his American patrons (not least President Jefferson, who appointed him 'Surveyor of Public Buildings of the United States at Washington in 1806) as it so clearly symbolized the democracy they were proudly establishing. Some examples of Latrobe's domestic architecture in America 1796 William Pennock House, Norfolk, Virginia. 1798 Harvie-Gamble House, Richmond, Virginia. 1799 Sedgeley (in the Gothic style), Philadelphia. 1805-8 Waln House, Philadelphia. 1811 Pope House, Lexington, Kentucky. Some examples of Latrobe's civic architecture in America. 1797 Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond. 1798 Project to build the in Philadelphia. 1802 Designs restoration/rebuilding of Nassau Hall at Princeton. 1804 Offers to donate his services in designing the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Baltimore. 1805 Draws up proposal for the wings between the President's House and the federal office buildings. 1807 New Orleans Customs House. 1809 Designs for decoration of the Madisons' public rooms at the President's House, Washington. 1815 Contracts to rebuild the burned U.S. Capitol. 1816 With Maximilien Godefroy, wins competition to build the Baltimore Exchange. 1819 Commissioned to design the central tower of St Louis Cathedral, Missouri. 1820 Design for State Bank accepted. Some examples of Latrobe's engineering projects in America 1797 Consultant to Dismal Swamp Land, Virginia. 1799-1801 Philadelphia Waterworks. 1801 Appointed engineer and contractor of the Susquehanna River Survey. 1803 Begins survey for the Chesapeake and Canal Company. 1804 Draws plans for Washington Canal. 1811 Accepts franchise from the New Orleans City Council to build a waterworks there; contract renewed every two years until his death. 1814 Becomes contractor for the steam engine at a woollen mill in Steubenville, Ohio. 1820 Dies of while working on the New Orleans Waterworks. Click here for extract of Latrobe's biography on Talbot Hamlin on Latrobe, Jefferson and the University of Viginia. An undercount of accesses since April 1996. Text only viewing isn't counted! The Powell Project. According to Benjamin Henry Latrobe , written by Talbot Hamlin and published in 1955, the State Penitentiary in Richmond, Virginia, was Latrobe’s first public building in America. It was also the last great work in his Virginia career. There was a competition for the penitentiary and Latrobe was informed by Governor James Wood (1796-1799) that his plan had been selected. The architect was awarded a premium and he was also appointed to supervise the prison’s construction. The penitentiary was located about three-quarters of a mile west of the state capitol. It was positioned on a 12-acre site overlooking the James River near the intersection of Spring and South 2nd Streets. It opened in 1800, four years after the state’s General Assembly authorized its construction. Latrobe’s design included many innovative ideas in penal reform espoused by and others who were interested in more humane penology. According to Hamlin: Latrobe’s surviving drawings indicate carefully grouped privies. This would have made it difficult for the guards to supervise the prisoners on their frequent trips to the bathroom. Talbot believed that during construction, crude individual water closets were provided in each cell. Other sources dispute this claim. If they were provided, personal privies may have been the only comfort afforded to the prisoners. The cells were large enough to hold several inmates, but the cell doors had no windows. This made it impossible for guards to supervise the prisoners during lockdown. M. Dementz and Abel Blouet, two French government officials who studied American prisons, examined the Richmond Penitentiary and complained the cells were dark, dank, and wet. There was no heat and poor ventilation. During the winter, prisoners’ hands and feet often suffered from frostbite. By the 1830s, many changes had been made to the prison. The population had increased and large shops were built behind Latrobe’s original design. A new wall was also constructed around the perimeter. Talbot states the State Penitentiary in Richmond ran a combination of the Pennsylvania System and the Auburn System. The Encyclopedia Britannica website states the Pennsylvania penal method was based on the principle that: The Auburn system (also known as the System) evolved during the 1820s at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. It was developed as an alternative to the Pennsylvania System. Prisoners worked in groups during the day and were kept in solitary confinement at night. Silence was enforced at all times because a lack of speaking was believed to take away the prisoners’ “sense of self”. And when the “sense of self” was taken away, convicts would become complacent and obedient to the jailer’s wishes. Talbot states, “Though altered and added to many times and long since replaced, for nearly a century the Richmond penitentiary was a prominent landmark which shows strikingly in many of the existing early views of the city. W. Angelo Powell served a two-year sentence in the State Penitentiary in Richmond, Virginia, for forging a check in the amount of $47.00. Unfortunately the prison’s records during Powell’s internment are lost to history. According to the Library of Virginia website, “During the evacuation of Richmond in April 1865, Penitentiary Superintendent Colin Bass carried off most of the penitentiary records and very few pre-1865 penitentiary records survive.” It is unknown if Powell’s family members visited him during his incarceration. Based on my research, the architect doesn’t reappear until 1857—in Baltimore. Many thanks to Shawn Beyer for sharing her research. The Minimalist Theme — Tumblr themes by Pixel Union | Powered by Tumblr. Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin. 1917 , 1819-1910 by Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, assisted by 1918 Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed; a biographical and critical study based mainly on his own writings by (volume 1) (volume 2) 1919 The education of by Henry Adams 1920 The life of John Marshall by Albert J. Beveridge 1921 The Americanization of ; the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after. by Edward Bok 1922 A daughter of the middle border by 1923 The life and letters of Walter H. Page by Burton J. Hendrick 1924 From immigrant to inventor by Michael Idvorsky Pupin 1925 Barrett Wendell and his letters by M. A. Dewolfe Howe 1926 The life of Sir William Osler by 1927 Whitman; an interpretation in narrative by 1928 The American orchestra and Theodore Thomas by 1929 The training of an American : the earlier life and letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913 by Burton J. Hendrick 1930 The Raven; a biography of Sam Houston by 1931 Charles W. Eliot, president of , 1869-1909 by 1932 , a biography by Henry F. Pringle 1933 : a study in courage by 1934 ; from poetry to politics by 1935 R. E. Lee, a biography by Douglas S. Freeman 1936 The thought and character of by 1937 Hamilton Fish; the inner history of the Grant administration by Allan Nevins 1938 Pedlar's progress by 1938 The life of Andrew Jackson by Marquis James 1939 Benjamin Franklin by 1940 ; life and letters : volume VII : War leader, April 6, 1917-February 28, 1918 and volume VIII : Armistice, March 1-November 11, 1918 by 1941 Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758; a biography by 1942 Crusader in crinoline, the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by 1943 Admiral of the ocean sea, a life of Christopher Columbus by (one-volume, condensed edition here) 1944 The American Leonardo, a life of Samuel F. B. Morse by 1945 George Bancroft by Russell Blaine Nye 1946 Son of the wilderness; the life of John Muir by 1947 The autobiography of by William Allen White 1948 Forgotten first citizen : John Bigelow by 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate history by Robert E. Sherwood 1950 John Quincy Adams and the foundations of American foreign policy by 1951 John C. Calhoun : American portrait by Margaret Louise Coit 1952 Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey 1953 Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803 : a biography by David J. Mays 1954 The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh 1955 The Taft story by William S. White 1956 Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Talbot Faulkner Hamlin 1957 Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy 1958 , a biography 1959 Woodrow Wilson : volume 1: American prophet by 1960 John Paul Jones : a sailor's biography by Samuel Eliot Morison 1961 and the coming of the Civil War by David Donald 1962 No award 1963 Henry James by 1964 by 1965 Henry Adams, in three volumes (The young Henry Adams; Henry Adams, the middle years; Henry Adams; the major phase) by 1966 A thousand days; John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1967 Mr. Clemens and , a biography by 1968 Memoirs by George E. Kennan 1969 The man from New York : John Quinn and his friends by Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1970 Huey Long by T. Harry Williams 1971 Robert Frost : volume 2: the years of triumph, 1915-1938 by 1972 Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on 's private papers by Joseph P. Lash 1973 Luce and his empire by W. A. Swanberg 1974 O'Neill : son and artist by 1975 : and the fall of New York by 1976 : a biography by R. W. B. Lewis 1977 A prince of our disorder : the life of T. E. Lawrence by John E. Mack 1978 by Walter Jackson Bate 1979 Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker 1980 The rise of Theodore Roosevelt by 1981 Peter the Great : his life and world by Robert K. Massie 1982 Grant : a biography by William McFeely 1983 Growing up by 1984 Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan 1985 The life and times of Cotton Mather by 1986 Louise Bogan : a portrait by Elizabeth Frank 1987 Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David. J. Garrow 1988 Look homeward : a life of by 1989 Oscar Wilde by 1990 Machiavelli in hell by 1991 : an American genius by and 1992 Fortunate son : the healing of a Vietnam vet by Lewis B. Puller, Jr. 1993 Truman by David McCullough 1994 W. E. B. Du Bois : biography of a race, 1868-1919 by 1995 Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life by Joan D. Hedrick 1996 God : a biography by 1997 Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt 1998 Personal history by 1999 Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg 2000 Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by 2001 W. E. B. Du Bois--the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis 2002 John Adams by David McCullough 2003 The years of Lyndon Johnson : volume 3 : the master of the Senate by Robert Caro 2004 Khrushchev : the man and his era by 2005 De Kooning : an American master by Mark Stevens and 2006 American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by and Martin J. Sherwin 2007 The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by 2008 Eden's outcasts : the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father by 2009 American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House by 2010 The first tycoon : the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles 2011 Washington : a life by 2012 George F. Kennan : an American life by 2013 The black count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo by 2014 Margaret Fuller : a new American life by 2015 The Pope and Mussolini : the secret history of Pius XI and the rise of fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer 2016 Barbarian days : a surfing life by 2017 The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between by 2018 Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by . CUL - Main Content. The Talbot Faulkner Hamlin architectural records and papers contains professional and personal writings, published papers, correspondence, photographs, architectural records, student work, and research materials related to the academic and architectural practice of New York architect Talbot Faulkner Hamlin. The largest portion of the collection relates to Hamlin's academic life as an architectural historian and educator from 1916, when he accepted his first position at , until 1955. Other large groups of materials include papers relating to the publication of two of Hamlin’s books, Greek Revival Architecture in Americ a and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Hamlin’s career as a practicing architect was relatively brief and few architectural records from his professional practice survive. The collection contains drawings, files and specifications, and photographs of approximately eighty projects in United States and Asia. Projects particularly represented include Wayland Academy, Hangchow, China, 1919; Peking University, Peking, China, 1919-1922; and Ginling College, Nanking, China, 1919-1925. Additionally, Hamlin traveled extensively and photographs that he took en route also form a significant portion of this collection. Most of the photographs record his visits to architectural sites in the United States and more than 16 foreign countries, with a small group of images documenting his fondness for sailing during these trips. Of note in this series are images of the Paris Exposition, 1937; the Fair, 1939; ’s California houses, undated; colleges in China and Korea, 1922; and other scenes in China, Japan, and Honolulu, 1922. Lastly, a small body of personal papers and student work completes the collection. It includes Hamlin’s art and sketch books, private correspondence, fiction and poetry, personal and family photographs, student papers and drawings. Talbot Faulkner Hamlin was born on June 16, 1889 in , the second of the four children of Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1855- 1926), professor of architecture at Columbia University. Hamlin went on to Amherst College and received his Bachelor of Arts in classics and English in 1910. In the fall of 1910, Hamlin enrolled in the School of Architecture at Columbia University and began his forty-six year association with the university. He received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1914. Upon graduation, Hamlin was hired as a draftsman in the New York architectural firm of Murphy and Dana. He became a partner of the firm in 1920. In 1930, Hamlin began his own firm, which lasted until the Depression, when commissions became scarce. During his years as a professional architect, Hamlin participated in various projects, mainly located in the United States and Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines. The bulk of his projects in the United States were residential and institutional (schools and churches), while projects in Asia were institutional (schools and monuments) and commercial. Hamlin’s academic career began in 1916 when he was appointed a part-time instructor of architectural history and theory in the School of Architecture at Columbia University. In 1934, he relinquished his professional practice and accepted the full-time position of Avery Librarian for the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Among his major contributions to Avery Library, Hamlin established the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. Hamlin remained librarian until 1945, when he resigned in order to devote more time to his professorship. Hamlin served the University for thirty-eight years, until his retirement in 1954. In addition to teaching, Hamlin’s academic achievement also rests on his publications and public service. In his lifetime, he published eight book- length works and miscellaneous essays, encyclopedia and dictionary articles, critical and book reviews, as well as poetry, plays, and fiction. He was also the editor of the four-volume Form and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture (1952). Among his publications, the most notable are Greek Revival Architecture in America (1944) and Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955). The latter won him the for Biography in 1956. Hamlin had appreciation for modern architecture and brought attention to Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Russian avant-garde architecture in his writing. Nevertheless, most of his major works are on historical architecture, particularly pre-modernist American architecture. Hamlin was also an active member of the Society of Architectural Historians and active in historical preservation in New York. Hamlin died on October 7, 1956, in Beaufort, South Carolina.