and this building made his reputation. it was something that even came up in models. people would talk about the famous bank of pennsylvania by benjamin latrobe. now if we could have the next slide. unfortunately, our destructive efforts as americans resulted in the demolition. here we are in 1872. this slide gives you some indication of how large the bank was. it was being demolished for reasons that i have never been clear about. but ultimately, it ended up this particular block as a parking lot. something of a sad indication of taste and what we believe is important. go on to the next slide. here is the famous charles wilson peale portrait of latrobe which was painted while he was living in philadelphia. latrobe was a great friend of the peale family. the peales ran museums, etc. and this is a portrait that is now in the white house. latrobe was an architect who couldn t see very well [laughter] glasses were very essential to his career. it seems
climate of washington, d.c., which was not even a city at this time. i invite you to look at the map in the lobby. the 1800 map shows the scattering of houses in this area of farms along the potomac, construction going on on capitol hill and the white house. workers shanties in between and a few houses. look at the map. what theustrative of federal city looked like and even georgetown was only 50 years old. a port, not even a town. a tobacco port exporting tobacco from montgomery county. annaen william and maria arrived in washington ther the year, 1793, into federal city, they arrived at a place that was rural. william had made his mark in an urban setting. he had been in philadelphia a where he hadrs done well and married well. he was a product of the scottish enlightenment in a town full of ideas and was our experiment in intellectual community in the republic. gentleman, manng with a mind that covered multiple disciplines. a man who is a medical doctor in theory, but neve
the book considers his role as architect incidental to his career as a renaissance man. ladies and gentlemen, welcome warden brown. [applause] mr. brown: thank you for setting thornton in the climate of his time. i m going to try to set thornton into the physical intellectual climate of washington, d.c., which was not even a city at this time. i invite you to look at the map in the lobby. the 1800 map shows the scattering of houses in this area of farms along the potomac, woods, construction going on on capitol hill and the white house. workers shanties in between and a few houses. look at the map. it is illustrative of what the federal city looked like and even georgetown was only 50 years old. a port, not even a town. a tobacco port exporting tobacco from montgomery county. so when william and anna maria arrived in washington after the year, 1793, into the federal city, they arrived at a place that was rural. william had made his mark in an urban setting. he had been in phi
i invite you all during the intermission to go out and look at the map in the lobby. the 1800 map, which shows the scattering of houses in this area farms along the potomac, woods behind the farms, construction going on on capitol hill and at the white house. worker shanties in between and a few houses going up. look at the map. of whatry illustrative the federal city looked like, and even georgetown was a 50-year-old village. a tobacco port, not even a town, really. it was a town, but it was a port exporting tobacco from what was montgomery county and elsewhere. so william and annamaria arrived in washington in the year after the year that has just been described, 1793. they arrived in a place that was let s put it this way rural. william had already made his mark in an urbain setting. he had been in philadelphia for a number of years, where he had done well and married well. he was a product of the scottish enlightenment in a town that was full of enlightenment ideas an
cool our road map begins with walmart s minimum wage hike. raising starting wages to $11, handing out some one-time cash bonuses. plus, bitcoin tumbles one of the world s biggest cryptocurrency markets is considering a trading ban. and delta s tax boost the airline raising earnings guidance by 20%. first up, though, walmart s making moves in the wake of tax reform the company announcing it will increase its starting wage for hourly workers in the u.s. to $11 an hour beginning next month and pay a one-time cash bonus to eligible employees those with at least 20 years of service will qualify for a $1,000 bonus walmart also says it will expand maternity and paternal leave benefits not breaking down the numbers, but there s a good chance more than half of their million employees are going to benefit somehow in these bonuses this is unprecedented and i think it s a lot to do with why the market keeps rallying i mean, largest private employer in the world that s doing this i