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One of the earliest American architects, William Thornton achieved early fame for his design of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC, in the style of neoclassical architecture. He was also active in domestic architecture, being responsible for the John Tayloe town house, known as The Octagon (1799-1802) and Thomas Peter's villa, Tudor Place ...
14 de ene. de 2021 · NASA is saddened to learn of the loss of former physician-astronaut, Dr. William Thornton, who died last week at his home in Boerne, Texas, at the age of 91. Thornton was selected as an astronaut in 1967, and launched twice on the space shuttle Challenger on STS-8 and STS-51B, the Spacelab 3 mission. He logged 313 hours in space. Thornton had a ...
23 de may. de 2018 · Thornton, William (1759–1828). Born in the British West Indies, he studied medicine at Edinburgh and became an American citizen in 1788. He designed the Library Company Building, Philadelphia, PA (1789–90—destroyed), based on a plate in volume 2 of Abraham Swan's ( fl. 1745– c. 1770) Collection of Designs in Architecture (1757), and in ...
In 1793, President George Washington selected physician, painter and architect Dr. William Thornton's design for the U.S. Capitol building. In this concluding session of a Thornton symposium ...
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William Thornton. (1759–1828). British-born American architect, inventor, and public official William Thornton was best known as the creator of the original design for the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. His revised Georgian design of 1795 was executed as the exterior of the north and south wings adjacent to the central rotunda, though ...
Dr. William Thornton’s Capitol Building design was significantly influenced by his European education and incorporated a central dome and two wings, resembling the East Front of the Louvre and the Pantheon. This design was lauded for its embodiment of democratic ideals and American identity. Although the building has been expanded and modified over the centuries, the essence of Thornton’s ...
None of the 17 plans submitted, however, were wholly satisfactory. In October, a letter arrived from Dr. William Thornton, a Scottish-trained physician living in Tortola, British West Indies, requesting an opportunity to present a plan even though the competition had closed. The commissioners granted this request.
