Talk:Benjamin Henry Latrobe/Archives/2015

"In 1810, Latrobe sent his son, Henry Sellon Boneval Latrobe"
Henry Sellon Boneval Latrobe is not Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II (born in 1806, therfore not sent anywhere by his father to present plans or whatever !). Please correct the link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.68.227.134 (talk) 16:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Great job
Just dropping in to say this is a great article! I'm sure it'll be ready for Good Article review soon, if it isn't already. Keep up the good work! :) --Midnightdreary 02:56, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Benjamin Latrobe
Hi Aude, I see you reverted the image I placed on the left in the Benjamin Latrobe article. Are you aware of this guideline from the MoS? '''Generally, right-alignment is preferred to left- or center-alignment. (Example: Race).* Exception: Portraits with the head looking to the reader’s right should be left-aligned (looking into the text of the article)''' cheers Raasgat 07:51, 30 July 2007 (UTC)    pasted from Aude's talk page
 * Left alignment would be okay if the photo was not at the top, but the first image in an article needs to go on the right. Right now, the image interferes with the Table of Contents.  Also, eventually the image will go in Infobox architect. --Aude (talk) 00:58, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

"Renaissance"
I deleted the following sentence:

The architectural style prevalent in Germany was that of the Early Renaissance and Late Gothic, though neither of those styles are demonstrated in Latrobe's works.

That is most ridiculous. The style prevalent in Germany in the 1780s (there was no "Germany" of course but many smaller countries like Prussia or Hesse) was Baroque (subsection Rokoko). Renaissance and Gothic replaced with Baroque would make the sentence much less nonsensical. --88.68.36.204 (talk) 20:30, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

"Obama Inauguration"
I don't know if anyone noticed, but this man's portrait (the same used as the picture) is featured prominently in the only photo of Barak Obamas "second" inauguration, taken a day after his "botched" one on January 20th. Is this worthy of mention in the article itself, on the bottom as a note of curiosity? -- ev'la

Burial
A book is quoted to the effect that Latrobe is buried at St. Louis Cathedral. This is incorrect. He and his son are both buried at St. Louis Cemetery #1, which is not at all the same thing. The story is that Benjamin's body originally was collected from the hotel where he was staying and taken to a common lye pit; this was standard protocol in New Orleans, which had frequent yellow fever epidemics. The body was later disinterred and reburied with his son, who had died three years before (also of yellow fever). I've never bought this story, really, because the "fever pits" were common graves with no individual markers and there wouldn't be much that was identifiable after even a short time, what with the lye and all. I expect, being a celebrity, he (and his son) were buried at St. Louis #1 in the first place. (That's a matter for "original research," however.) -- Michael K Smith Talk 16:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)