Here are some valuable sources for serious
research in this subject area. Some are rare,
but most can be found in a good city library
or in a college or university that teaches
architecture and architectural history.
Amazon is a bookstore on the web that you can use to find all
sorts of helpful books and source material on the subject of
Washington, architecture or anything else you care to look up.
Latrobe, Jefferson, and the National Capitol
by Paul F. Norton
Garland Publishers, New York, 1977
ISBN: 0824027167 : cost c.$40.00
It was originally presented as the author's thesis
to Princeton University in 1952
Architecture, Power, and National Identity
by Lawrence J. Vale
Yale University Press, New York and London, 1992
ISBN: 0300049587: Amazon.com Price: $50.00
This is an immensely useful book that is an
absolute necessity in the study of this subject:
well written, Vale is very easy to read and digest
Washington, The Nation's Capital
by William Howard Taft and James Bryce
National Geographic Society, DC, 1915
This is a small book full of coloured plates
and written by the former US president
Benjamin Hnery Latrobe
by Talbot Hamlin
Oxford University Press, New York, 1955
Library of Congress no. 55-8117
This presents a valuable insight into Latrobe's
work and his relationship with Jeffeson on the
Capitol project
Temples of Democracy
by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and William Seale
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976
ISBN: 0151885362 : cost: alot!
An essential look at the state capitols of the US
and how symbolism based on the Washington Capitol
dome was so important to legitimise state
governmental authority
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© 1996 Daniel Frydman, University of Edinburgh
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