Maximilian Godefroy

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Maximilian Godefroy
Born1765
Paris, France
DiedApril 7, 1848(1848-04-07) (aged 82–83)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArchitect
First Unitarian Church (Baltimore, Maryland), 1818

J. Maximilian M. Godefroy (1765 – 7 April 1848)

Bonaparte activist, he was imprisoned in the fortress of Bellegarde and Château d'If then released about 1805 and allowed to come to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where he became an instructor in drawing, art and military science at St. Mary's College, the Sulpician Seminary.[2] By 1808, Godefroy had married Eliza Crawford Anderson, editor of her own periodical, the Observer and the niece of a wealthy Baltimore merchant.[3]

While in Baltimore, he designed a number of important and famous structures including the

U.S. Custom House in 1902), Godefroy and Latrobe fell out and dissolved the partnership. Latrobe was to have contributed the overall design, while Godefroy was to execute the drawings and supervise construction. Godefroy changed the plans to reflect his own ideas. After parting company, Latrobe continued to credit Godefroy with the design for the front of the Exchange, and did not compete with him for the plans to design the new First Independent Church (Unitarians). Godefroy, however, blamed Latrobe for his inability to obtain further work in Baltimore.[3]

Godefroy left Baltimore in 1819 for England, his daughter dying of yellow fever before the ship had cleared Chesapeake Bay. He worked for a while in London, then moved on to France.[5] Prior to his death in 1838/40?, he designed a new wing to the Palais de Justice and the Préfecture, both at Laval, Mayenne, France.[6]

Godefroy designed the famous iconic "

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.

Selected works

References

  1. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1700332
    . Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  2. ^ "Maryland ArtSource". Maximilian Godefroy (c.1770-c.1837). The Baltimore Art Research & Outreach Consortium. 2009-02-09. Archived from the original on 2003-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-87033-477-8
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  4. ^ John G. Waite Associates (December 5, 1997). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: College of Medicine of Maryland (pdf). National Park Service.
  5. ISBN 0-87033-272-4
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  6. ^ "Answers.com". Maximilien Godefroy. Answers Corporation. 2009-02-09.

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