Editing Classical order (section)

===American orders===
[[File:Corn-capital-litchfield.jpg|thumb|Corn capital at the [[Litchfield Villa]] [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)]] ([[Alexander Jackson Davis|A.J. Davis]], architect)]]
In the United States [[Benjamin Latrobe]], the architect of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol building]] in Washington, DC, designed a series of botanical American orders. Most famous is the Corinthian order substituting ears of corn and their husks for the acanthus leaves, which was executed by Giuseppe Franzoni and used in the small domed vestibule of the Senate. Only this vestibule survived the [[Burning of Washington]] in 1814, nearly intact.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 1814 burning of Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-1814-burning-of-washington-d-c/ |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=31 August 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref>

With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted tobacco leaves for the acanthus, of which he sent a sketch to [[Thomas Jefferson]] in a letter, 5&nbsp;November 1816. He was encouraged to send a model of it, which remains at [[Monticello]]. In the 1830s [[Alexander Jackson Davis]] admired it enough to make a drawing of it. In 1809 Latrobe invented a second American order, employing [[magnolia]] flowers constrained within the profile of classical mouldings, as his drawing demonstrates. It was intended for "the Upper Columns in the Gallery of the Entrance of the Chamber of the Senate".<ref>{{cite web |title=United States Capitol exhibit |website=[[Library of Congress]] |url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s4.html |access-date=2017-12-29 |archive-date=2017-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715102824/https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/us.capitol/s4.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>