Talk:George Hadfield (architect)

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[edit] Useful links

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—most notably his abstractly severe cluster of buildings for the Washington City Hall, 1820-20—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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)