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He was born in England at the Moravian community at Fulneck in Yorkshire and, at the age of 7, sent away to the Moravian School at Niesky in Silesia on the borders of Saxony and Poland. After a continental Grand Tour he returned to England in 1784 and entered apprenticeship to John Smeaton the engineer (of Eddystone Lighthouse fame), and later, the eminent architect C.R. Cockerell. In the early 1790s he entered private practice and Hammerwood Park (link below) near East Grinstead in Sussex was his first independent work in 1792. In 1793 Ashdown House was built nearby. Both houses still stand. In 1795 he emigrated to AmericaThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in where he soon achieved eminence as the first professional architect working in the country.
As an engineer, he was responsible for the water supply to Philadelphia and, with his son, New Orleans, where he died. Of his many architectural triumphs, in addition to the Capitol, Baltimore Cathedral, The Pope House ( Lexington, KentuckyLexington, Kentucky is the "Horse Capital of the World," located in the heart of the Bluegrass. It is the second largest city in Kentucky and has the second largest metropolitan area (after Louisville). Lexington is home to the Kentucky Horse Park, Transy), Chillicothe ( OhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. postal abbreviation is OH its old-style abbreviation is O. Ohio is an I), St John's Church and Decatur House ( Washington), together with the Porticos of the White HouseThis page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). See also 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical . The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President still survive.
Principally, he was responsible for setting public architecture in the United States in the Greek RevivalGreek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. It rebelled against the fussy Palladian style (after Andrea Palladio), which style. He complained in jest that after building just the Philadelphia Waterworks and the Bank of Pennsylvania, the whole town copied him, and his influence on public architecture endures.