today i'm talking about benjamin henry latrobe's capitol. i am an architectural historian, and i hope that i have watered down a little bit of my rhetoric enough so that i can understandable to you all. the burning of the capitol on august 24th, 1814, was a are pref rather than a disaster for benjamin henry latrobe. he now had the unexpected opportunity to repair some of his capitol's interiors and rebuild others into exemplars of greek revivala tu architecture. during his first tenure, latrobe was constrained by william thornton's 1792 winning design for the exterior envelope and steven hallot's for the interior's. a succession of short-term architects finished much of the senate wing before latrobe's arrival. the capitol latrobe inherited was that wing and the orven, th oval hall built in 1801 to accommodate the house of representatives. all these designs were a fusion of 18th century ne-yo class simple derived from roman and renaissance architecture as interpreted by italian, french, and english sources, as well as ancient ones depending

one more -- >> there are some beautiful drawings of the benjamin, henry latrobe furniture that was burned up. why has the white house never reproduced that? and could you comment a little bit about the appropriations for the monroes to furnish the white house and how congress specified that they were ever practicable by american furniture. >> yes. okay. two questions. one, the world behind is not so happy with orange seats anymore. so they didn't want to rebuild the latrobe stuff. it is hard. it is wicker seats and it is not -- would not be comfortable for what has to happen there. in those days you didn't have a lot of chairs, you had stools. and women would sit on the stools and men would stand behind them and the fire in front of them. and that doesn't really happen anymore. you would have a ride, probably, but anyway, as for the other one was -- about the monroe thing -- monroe naturally wanted french furniture. he was in the diplomatic service there and he and his wife acquired beautiful furniture that you can see at the museum in fredericksburg, one of our people. and he had that an

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