Talk:George Hadfield (architect)

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 * mention in Library of Congress
 * The National Capitol: Its Architecture, Art and History By George Cochrane Hazelton
 * Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect ... By Antoinette
 * Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830 By John Summerson
 * The Architects of the Capitol Since 1793
 * Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C.: With Full Outline of ... By Harvey W. Crew, William
 * Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity By Samuel Douglas Wyeth
 * Slavery in Washington, part 2
 * Thomas Jefferson, architect
 * notes for Thomas Jefferson
 * District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
 * Congressional Cemetery - War of 1812
 * History of the United States Capitol
 * "One further emigré who established a limited but influential practice was George Hadfield (c. 1763-1826), born in Livorno, Italy, of British parents. A pupil of the eminent James Wyatt in England, and recipient of the first traveling scholarship sponsored by the Royal Academy, Hadfield became frustrated by the limited professional opportunities in England, and moved to the United States in 1795. For a brief time he served as superintendent of Thornton's U.S. Capitol, and then established a practice in Washington, D.C. Even before Latrobe used accurate Grecian orders, Hadfield used Erechtheion Ionic columns in the first U.S. Treasury in Washington, built in 1796 (no longer standing). One of his most impressive works is still visible from the Potomac shore of Washington, the dramatic hexastyle pedimented portico with six immense unfluted Doric columns that Hadfield added in 1817-20 to the front of the existing Custis-Lee mansion standing on the bluff at Arlington, Virginia (today overlooking the National Cemetery at Arlington). [4.37] Hadfield's portico anticipated by a year the beginning of the true Greek Revival that swept over the United States after 1818, and Hadfield's later work&mdash;most notably his abstractly severe cluster of buildings for the Washington City Hall, 1820-20&mdash;is decidedly Greek Revival in style."

Tedickey (talk) 01:44, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

The LOC gallery link via DC Courts page is no longer available.

Here are some other useful links: Tedickey (talk) 22:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * District of Columbia City Halls: Municipal Symbols of the District of Columbia
 * Preservation-Minded Neighbors Decry Decayed State of Zoo’s Historic Adams Mill Road Site
 * CITY HALL (District Court House)
 * A New Guide to Washington By George Watterston
 * Arlington House Architecture & Construction

U. S. Capitol
Bryan notes (page 202) that Thornton's design was only a sketch. It was Hallet and Hadfield who produced the detailed working drawings. The Thornton topic does not mention Hadfield in this regard. Tedickey (talk) 14:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Hoban and Hallett
Bryan notes (page 241) that Hallett as of June 26, 1794, was under supervision of Hoban. For some unspecified changes Hallett was dismissed November 15, 1794. Another source starts that Hallett did not provide drawings at this point; Bryan takes that into account when noting (footnote in 241) that Hadfield's original agreement made this explicit. Tedickey (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Biography
Dictionary of National Biography has this text: "HADFIELD, GEORGE (d. 1826), architect ; brother of Mrs. Maria Cecilia Louisa Cosway [q. v.] ; travelling student of Royal Academy ; at Rome, 1790 ; exhibited in 1795 drawing for a restoration of the temple at Palestrina, and drawings of the temples of Mars and Jupiter Tonans, and an interior of St. Peter's ; designed buildings in Washington ; died in America. [xxiii. 432]"

Tedickey (talk) 15:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hotels
One of the sources (Dunlap) mentions Gadsby's Hotel and Fuller's Hotel. Here are some links mentioning those: Tedickey (talk) 19:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Nineteenth Century Hotels in the United States
 * Life of Amos A. Lawrence pp 20-21

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Maria Cosway and Thomas Jefferson
The statement that painter, musician, and educator Maria Cosway is best known for a relationship with Thomas Jefferson seems undue emphasis at best and incorrect at worst. None of the following sources mention the relationship. 1. the entry for Maria Cosway in the Dictionary of National Biography 2. the entry for her husband Richard Cosway in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica (sadly there is no entry for Maria Cosway herself) 3. the entry for Thomas Jefferson in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica nor 4. the entry for Maria Cosway in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia The Wikipedia article about Thomas Jefferson has only one short paragraph about him falling in love with Cosway over six weeks, after which they stayed in correspondence, as did many people in that era, until his death. Since this article is about neither Maria Cosway, nor Thomas Jefferson, I conclude that the statement does not belong here. Therefore, I have been bold and deleted it. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 23:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)