Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Talbot Faulkner Hamlin (1889–1956) was an American architect, architectural historian, writer, and educator, born in New York City as the son of architecture professor Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin. He graduated from Amherst College and Columbia University School of Architecture, practiced architecture with firms like Murphy, McGill & Hamlin, designing notable projects in China such as Ginling College and Peking University, and later served as Avery Librarian and professor at Columbia for over four decades. His notable works include Greek Revival Architecture in America (1944) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955).