Baltimore Cathedral

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Baltimore Cathedral
Designer Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Location Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Date 1806 or 1814 to 1818
Building Type large church, cathedral
Climate temperate
Context urban hill
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Street Address 408 North Charles Street Walk Score
Notes "St. Mary's Cathedral" in Whiffen and Koeper and others. The "Baltimore Basilica". Domed cross-plan. Roman Catholic.
At Great Buildings http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Baltimore_Cathedral.html

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Known as "America's first cathedral", designed in part in reference to the slightly earlier U.S. Capitol building.

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Portico by John H. B. Latrobe, 1863.

Officially known as the "Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary".

[edit] Renovation 1998-2006

Building Modification (1998-2006)
Basilica of the Assumption
Designer John G. Waite, AIA, Troy, New York, USA
Date 1998 to 2006
Modification Type Restoration
Building Type Cathedal
Builder Henry H. Lewis Contractors, LLC



Building Details
Client Basilica of the Assumption Historic Trust
Awards 2009 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture





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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. circle and square diagram, p185. reduction diagram, p212.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com

Richard Hubbard Howland. The Architecture of Baltimore, a Pictorial History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953. exterior photo of facade, plate37, p71.

Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. interior of altar and main space, plate 704, p444.

Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, 1860-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. ISBN 0262730707. exterior photo, f115, p136. plan drawing, f116, p136.   An excellent survey of American architecture. Available at Amazon.com

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