William Thornton
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William Thornton was an American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He also served as the first Architect of the Capitol and first Superintendent of the
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1804
Ruins of the Thornton Plantation at Tortola
Thornton's original Capitol Building design
Thornton's submission for the Capitol, officially approved by Washington in 1793
Jost Van Dyke
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Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, measuring roughly 8 square kilometres. It rests in the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands,
William Thornton
…discernible talent in "the arts of design," to employ an 18th-century term that is particularly useful in assessing his career. Thornton was born on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, West Indies, in a Quaker community. where he was heir to sugar plantations. He was sent to England at age five to be…
Jost Van Dyke
View overlooking White Bay, Jost Van Dyke, BVI