William Strickland, the First Native American Architect and Engineer

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Excerpt from William Strickland, the First Native American Architect and Engineer The first of these, in point of chronology, is the English architect and engineer, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and second, his most eminent pupil, William Strickland. Our art annals have dealt rather shabbily with Strickland, and yet there remain even now, more distinguished ex amples of his work than of any other early Amer ican architect and engineer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.