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THE CAPITOL DOME 47 first national architectural style. Latrobe's influence on Washington architecture continued in the work of his student and protégé Robert Mills, who President Andrew Jackson appointed as architect to the Treasury in 1836. e Department of the Treasury building (fig. 8), originally designed by George Hadfield and rebuilt by Latrobe after its destruction by the British in 1814, faced directly onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Robert Mills designed a great colonnaded east wing of what was eventually to be a massive building. e columns with Ionic capitals were reminiscent of those of the Erectheum on the Acropolis. e Ionic colonnade was echoed in subsequent buildings such as the Treasury Department Annex across Pennsylvania Avenue and in the Chamber of Commerce on nearby Lafayette Square, both designed by Cass Gilbert in the early twentieth-century Beaux- Arts style. The style imprinted on Washington by Benjamin Henry Latrobe immediately after the War of 1812 thus still lives on into the twenty-first century. MARK N. OZER is a former professor of neurology at the Georgetown University Medical School. His interest in history, geography, and urban development has resulted in the publication of a series of books, including Washington, D.C.: Politics and Place (2009), Massachusetts Avenue in the Gilded Age (2010), Northwest Washington, D.C.: Tales from West of the Park (2011), and Washington, D.C.: Streets and Statues (2012). Fig. 8. Construction of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C., with oxen in foreground on south side, 1860. L IBR ARY OF CONGRE S S PRIN T S AND PHOTO GR APHS DIVISION