The Architecture of Maximilian Godefroy

Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 8vo. xix, 246 (6) pp, illus. The Johns Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth-Century Architecture series: First Edition, 1974. Not Price Clipped. Small black remainder dot on bottom text block, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, bright and white. 6" x 8.5". Brown cloth with glossy green lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. "J. Maximilian M. Godefroy (1765-1838) was a French-American architect. Godefroy was born in France and educated as a geographical/civil engineer. During the French Revolution he fought briefly on the Royalist side. Later, as an anti-Bonaparte activist, he was imprisoned in the fortress of Bellegarde and Chateau D'if then released about 1805 and allowed to come to the United States, settling in Baltimore. Godefroy designed the famous iconic "Battle Monument" from the recent War of 1812, commemorating the casualties of soldiers and officers from the previous British military attack in the Battle of Baltimore, with the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Battle of North Point, and stand-off at the eastern city fortifications at Loudenschlager's Hill, now Hampstead Hill in Patterson Park, September 12-13-14, 1814, at the old former Baltimore County/Town Courthouse Square on North Calvert Street between East Lexington and East Fayette Streets - constructed 1815 to 1822, and the now landmark First Independent Church of Baltimore, later to become known as the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore (Unitarian and Universalist) at West Franklin and North Charles Streets - 1817.".