The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobes English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobes design theories and architectural practice in a new country Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795 1798): Latrobes first explorations of the American context Practice in Philadelphia (1798 1807): designs for a merchant elite countryseats in Maryland and Ohio and the emergence of the rational house A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807 1815): houses in Washington D.C. Kentucky and Pittsburgh Last houses (1815 1820): Latrobes final years in Washington D.C. Baltimore and New Orleans Some perspectives on an architects career Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobes houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant Garde