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George Hadfield

He was hired in 1795 to design the US Capitol Building and he worked on it for the next 3 years before he and architect William Thornton had an argument and Hadfield dropped off the project. He was the architect for the West Wing. He would later be architect for the Treasury Department and the Arlington House in the Arlington Cemetery. He is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC.

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Uploaded on July 12, 2009
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