[U.S. custom house, Boston, Massachusetts. Elevation]

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[U.S. custom house, Boston, Massachusetts. Elevation]

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Inscribed in pencil: "Boston Custom House" and "I. [sic] B. Young Archt."
Blind stamp: Geo. W. Rapp, architect & sup., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Stamp: B9.
Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100)
Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress)
Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2010:100, 79.5068.

Age of Reason of American Architecture

Founding fathers wanted the United States to be a complete break from the past and English influences. Jefferson saw architecture as an artistic declaration that the United States was unique and not European. The inspirations for his architectural views were the classic civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. The “Age of Reason” architects were drawn to the symmetry, clean lines and mathematical preciseness of Greek and Roman buildings. Jefferson probably had the largest architectural library in the United States.