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Essential Architecture- the
North East Baltimore Cathedral / Cathedral of the Assumption |
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architect |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
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location |
Baltimore, MD |
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date |
1804-18 (R: 1804-21) (W: 1814-18) |
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style |
Federal |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
Church |
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| general view (U. Penn. slide coll.: gift of G. B. Tatum, 1966) and general view from southwest, photograph ca. 1902, W.H. Jackson, Detroit Publishing Co. (no. 014266), Library of Congress. | |
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| plan, from Fiske Kimball, "Latrobe's Designs for the Cathedral of Baltimore" Architectural Record, vol. 43 (June 1918) and south flank, photo 1982, M. Brack. | |
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| southwest cupola, from roof, photo 1995, J. Cohen and Interior dome, Photo 97, M. Clausen. | |
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| section, from Fiske Kimball, "Latrobe's Designs for the Cathedral of Baltimore" Architectural Record, vol. 43 (June 1918). | |
| Special thanks to the Society of Architectural Historians for some of the images on this page (copyright SAH). |
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