(1764–1820), Anglo-American architect and engineer, born in Fulneck, near Leeds, England, and educated in England and Germany. In 1796 he immigrated to the U.S. One of his first American commissions was to work with Thomas Jefferson in designing the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. For this project Latrobe renewed the use of Greek architectural elements, thus advancing the GREEK REVIVAL, (q.v.) in the U.S. He designed the Bank of Pennsylvania (1801) in Philadelphia in the form of a Greek Ionic temple, and for the Bank of the United States (1819–26), later the Philadelphia Customs House, he followed the design of the Parthenon in Athens. Latrobe also drew the plans for the first cathedral in the U.S., the neoclassical Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1806–18) in Baltimore, Md. Appointed surveyor of public buildings in 1803 by President Jefferson, Latrobe designed the south wing of the U.S. Capitol and carried out alterations in the White House. After the British burned the Capitol in 1814 during the War of 1812, he supervised its reconstruction and completion. He designed and executed (1799–1801) the Philadelphia water-supply system, which served as a model for many subsequent municipal water systems. He died of yellow fever while supervising the construction of a water-supply system in New Orleans, La.