Editing Thomas Ustick Walter

{{Short description|American architect (1804-1887)}}
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|predecessor         = [[Charles Bulfinch]]
|successor           = [[Edward Clark (architect)|Edward Clark]]

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'''Thomas Ustick Walter''' (September 4, 1804 &ndash; October 30, 1887) was an American [[architect]]. He worked on more than 400 projects, including [[Moyamensing Prison]] and [[Girard College]] in Philadelphia. He served as the fourth [[Architect of the Capitol]], and led the addition of the north and south wings and [[United States Capitol dome|the central dome]]. He retired in 1865, but financial difficulties forced him back to work in the 1870s, including a job as Chief Assistant to the Architect of [[Philadelphia City Hall]]. 

A founder of the [[American Institute of Architects]], he served as its president from 1876 to 1887.

==Early life and education==
Walter was born on September 4, 1804, in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Ustick Walter |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Ustick-Walter |website=www.britannica.com |publisher=Britannica |access-date=20 December 2024 |archive-date=29 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829080721/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Ustick-Walter |url-status=live }}</ref> He was the son of mason and bricklayer Joseph S. Walter and his wife Deborah.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frary |first1=Ihna Thayer |title=They Built the Capitol |date=1940 |publisher=Garrett and Massie |page=201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xB5AAAAMAAJ |access-date=23 December 2024}}</ref> Walter showed an aptitude for mathematics and drawing at an early age.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=322}} He worked as a bricklayer for his father during the construction of the [[Second Bank of the United States]]<ref name=winterthur>{{cite web |title=Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887) |url=http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0116.htm |website=findingaid.winterthur.org |publisher=The Winterthur Library |access-date=22 December 2024 |archive-date=1 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201154250/http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0116.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and studied architecture in the office of [[William Strickland (architect)|William Strickland]].<ref name=aoc>{{cite web |title=Thomas Ustick Walter, Fourth Architect of the Capitol |url=https://www.aoc.gov/about-us/history/architects-of-the-capitol/thomas-ustick-walter |website=www.aoc.gov |publisher=Architect of the Capitol |access-date=19 December 2024}}</ref>

He attended the School of Mechanic Arts at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and studied under [[John Haviland]].<ref name=winterthur/> 

Later in life, he received an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Madison University in 1849, a Ph.D. from the [[Bucknell University|University of Lewisburg]] in 1853, and a Doctor of Laws degree from [[Harvard University]] in 1857.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=326}}

==Career==
Walter established his architectural design practice in 1830.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=323}} The following year, he was appointed chief architect of the planned Moyamensing Prison. In 1833, the Philadelphia City Council accepted his design for Girard College; he led construction until its completion in 1847.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=323}}

In 1829, Walter was elected to the [[Franklin Institute]]; he would serve the museum in several roles, including as professor of architecture in 1841<ref name=winterthur/> and as chairman of the Board of Managers in 1846.{{sfn|Mason|1888|pp=326-327}} 

In 1836, he recommended the creation of the American Institution of Architects and served as secretary. That organization failed, but in 1857, he would help to found the [[American Institute of Architects]], for which he served as vice-president in 1857 and as president from 1876 to 1887.<ref name="Rees">{{cite web |last1=Rees |first1=Philip A. |title=Walter, Thomas U. (1804-1887) |url=https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000190 |website=ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu |publisher=North Carolina Architects & Builders |access-date=20 December 2024 |archive-date=20 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241220200006/https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000190 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1838, the building committee of Girard College funded a European trip for Walter. He visited England, Ireland, France, and Italy to study the architecture and construction of schools and other buildings and gather ideas for his work at the college.<ref name="KohlerCarson">{{cite book |last1=Kohler |first1=Sue A. |last2=Carson |first2=Jeffrey R. |title=Sixteenth Street Architecture - Volume 2 |date=1978 |publisher=Commission of Fine Arts |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=58-60 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sixteenth_Street_Architecture/_2dK3n--wAkC |access-date=23 December 2024}}</ref>

In 1839, he was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1839&year-max=1839&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2021-04-09 |website=search.amphilsoc.org |archive-date=2021-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413161748/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1839&year-max=1839&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1841, a local economic downturn created financial hardship for Walter. He was forced to sell his house and most of his architectural library.<ref name="KohlerCarson" /> In 1843, he was commissioned to build a [[Breakwater (structure)|breakwater]] for the port of [[La Guaira|LaGuaira, Venezuela]], and completed the work in 1845.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=323}}

===The U.S. Capitol and its dome===
[[Image:LincolnInauguration1861a.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|Inauguration of [[Abraham Lincoln]], March 4, 1861, beneath the unfinished Capitol dome]]

In 1851, Walter was selected by President [[Millard Fillmore]] to lead the expansion of the U.S. Capitol.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=325}} The office of the Architect of the Capitol, originally part of the [[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]], was from 1853 to 1862 placed under the [[United States Department of War|War Department]]. Walter's work was supervised by [[Montgomery C. Meigs]] and [[William B. Franklin]]. Work was discontinued at the outbreak of the American Civil War, and when it started up again in 1862, his department was again supervised by the Department of the Interior.<ref name=aoc/>

Construction on the wings began in 1851. The [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] met in its new quarters in December 1857 and the [[United States Senate|Senate]] occupied its new [[United States Senate Chamber|chamber]] by January 1859. Walter's [[fireproofing|fireproof]] [[cast iron|cast-iron]] dome was authorized by Congress on March 3, 1855, and was nearly completed by December 2, 1863, when the [[Statue of Freedom]] was placed on top. The dome's [[cast iron frame|cast-iron frame]] was made by the iron foundry [[Adrian Janes|Janes, Fowler, Kirtland & Co.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Terrell|first=Ellen|date=2015-05-20|title=The Capitol Dome: Janes, Fowler, & Kirtland Co. {{!}} Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business|url=https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2015/05/the-capitol-dome-janes-fowler-kirtland-co/|access-date=2021-08-25|website=blogs.loc.gov|archive-date=2021-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824221120/https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2015/05/the-capitol-dome-janes-fowler-kirtland-co/|url-status=live}}</ref> The 36 Corinthian columns designed by Walter, as well as 144 cast-iron structural pillars for the dome, were supplied by the Baltimore ironworks of [[Robert Poole (industrialist)|Poole & Hunt]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swett |first=Steven C. |author-link=Steven C. Swett |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1338040526 |title=The metalworkers : Robert Poole, his ironworks, and technology in 19th-century America |publisher=Baltimore Museum of Industry |others=Stephen Marchesi, Baltimore Museum of Industry |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-578-28250-3 |location=Baltimore, Maryland |pages=85–115 |oclc=1338040526}}</ref> Walter also rebuilt the interior of the [[Library of Congress|Library of Congress']] west center building after the fire of 1851. Walter continued as Capitol architect until 1865, when he resigned his position over a minor contract dispute. After 14 years in Washington, he retired to Philadelphia.<ref name=KohlerCarson/>

In the 1870s, financial setbacks forced Walter from retirement. He worked for a year as a draftsman for the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=325}} He worked as Chief Assistant<ref name=aoc/> to his friend and younger colleague [[John McArthur Jr.]], when he won the design competition for [[Philadelphia City Hall]].<ref name=Moss>{{cite web |last1=Moss |first1=Roger W. |title=Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887) |url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21624 |website=www.philadelphiabuildings.org |publisher=The Athenaeum of Philadelphia |access-date=20 December 2024}}</ref> He continued on that vast project until his death in 1887. He was interred at [[Laurel Hill Cemetery]] in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas U. Walter |url=https://remembermyjourney.com/memorials/thomas-u-walter?id=qmdn1kJA |website=remembermyjourney.com |publisher=webCemeteries |access-date=19 December 2024 |archive-date=19 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219173450/https://remembermyjourney.com/memorials/thomas-u-walter%3Fid%3Dqmdn1kJA |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Works==
[[File:Girard_College,_Founder's_Hall,_Girard_and_Corinthian_Avenues,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA,51-PHILA,459A-49_(CT).tif|thumb|Founder's Hall, [[Girard College]], Philadelphia]]
Walter worked on over 400 projects over his career,<ref name=Rees/> including:
* [[Society Hill Synagogue|Spruce Street Baptist Church]], 418 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1829)
* [[Portico Row]], 900–930 Spruce St., Philadelphia (1831–32)
* [[Moyamensing Prison]], Philadelphia (1832–35){{sfn|Mason|1888|p=323}}
* [[First Presbyterian Church of West Chester]], [[West Chester, Pennsylvania]] (1832)<ref>{{cite web|last=Filemban|first=Mustafa|title=WC History: The Shipwrecked Entrepreneur|url=http://www.downtownwestchester.com/view_program.php?id=445|access-date=2015-12-09|website=www.downtownwestchester.com|archive-date=2020-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113171724/http://www.downtownwestchester.com/view_program.php?id=445|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Wills Eye Hospital]], [[Logan Circle (Philadelphia)|Logan Square]], Philadelphia (1832)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tasman|first1=William|title=The History of Wills Eye Hospital|date=1980|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0061425318}}</ref>
* Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia (1833)<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1861 |title=Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia [graphic] |url=https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora:59908 |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections |language=en |archive-date=2023-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102022353/https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora:59908 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Founder's Hall, [[Girard College|Girard College for Orphans]], Philadelphia (1833–1848)
* Expansion of [[Andalusia (estate)|Andalusia]], [[Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania]] (1833–32)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Moss|first=Roger W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohX43SqBSmoC|title=Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes|date=1998-05-29|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-3438-1|pages=154|language=en}}</ref>
* [[St. George Society of Philadelphia|St. George's Hall]], residence of [[Matthew Newkirk]] (1835)<ref>{{cite web|title=St. George's Hall. [graphic]|url=http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000222040|access-date=2011-06-18|publisher=The Library Company of Philadelphia|archive-date=2011-08-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823233618/http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000222040|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Interior renovation of [[Christ Church, Philadelphia]], (1835–36)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3VxJIxqEzioC|title=Building & Furnishing of Christ Church Philadelphia|publisher=Christ Church Philadelphia|isbn=978-1-4223-6535-9|pages=30|language=en}}</ref>
[[File:BankofChesterCounty.jpeg|thumb|[[Bank of Chester County]] in West Chester, Pennsylvania]]
* [[Bank of Chester County]], West Chester, Pa. (1836)<ref name="loc">{{cite web|title=Bank of Chester County, 17 North High Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA|url=http://www.arch.state.pa.us/|access-date=2012-11-12|publisher=Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey Collection|format=Searchable database|archive-date=2012-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028073929/http://www.arch.state.pa.us/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[West Chester Young Ladies Seminary]], West Chester (1838)<ref name=Lukens/>
* [[Newkirk Viaduct Monument]], [[West Philadelphia]], Philadelphia (1839)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Newkirk Monument|url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/105837|access-date=2020-04-18|website=www.philadelphiabuildings.org}}</ref>
* [[St. James Episcopal Church (Wilmington, North Carolina)|St. James Episcopal Church]], [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] (1839–40)
* [[Norfolk Academy]] [[Norfolk, Virginia]] (1840)
* [[Lexington Presbyterian Church]], [[Lexington, Virginia]] (1843)<ref name="VAnom">{{cite web|author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff|date=March 1978|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lexington Presbyterian Church|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/117-0012_Lexington_Presbyterian_Church_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|access-date=2013-11-03|archive-date=2012-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927003025/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lexington/117-0012_Lexington_Presbyterian_Church_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Breakwater (structure)|Breakwater]], [[La Guaira|La Guaira, Venezuela]] (1843–45)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Crichfield|first=George Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LYtAAAAYAAJ|title=Foreigners in Latin America and relations with foreign governments|date=1908|publisher=Brentano's|pages=304|language=en|archive-date=2023-05-04|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504003404/https://books.google.com/books?id=6LYtAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)|Chapel of the Cross]], [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]] (1843)
* [[Tabb Street Presbyterian Church]], [[Petersburg, Virginia]] (1843)<ref name="VAnom2">{{cite web|author=Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff|date=February 1978|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tabb Street Presbyterian Church|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Petersburg/123-0043_Tabb_Street_Presbyterian_Church_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|access-date=2013-12-01|archive-date=2012-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927025132/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Petersburg/123-0043_Tabb_Street_Presbyterian_Church_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Winder Houses, 232-34 S. 3rd St., Philadelphia (1843)<ref>{{cite web |title=William H. Winder Houses |url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ho_display.cfm/67073 |website=www.philadelphabuildings.org |publisher=The Athenaeum of Philadelphia |access-date=24 December 2024}}</ref>
* [[Chester County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Chester County Courthouse]], West Chester (1846–47)<ref>[http://dsf.chesco.org/chesco/cwp/view.asp?A=1492&Q=617914 dsf.chesco.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205235527/http://dsf.chesco.org/chesco/cwp/view.asp?A=1492&Q=617914|date=2012-02-05}} - Chester county courthouse West Chester, Pennsylvania</ref>
* [[Chester County History Center|Chester County Horticultural Hall]], West Chester (1848)
[[File:Inglewood Cottage 2008.jpg|thumb|[[Inglewood Cottage]] in Philadelphia]]
* [[Inglewood Cottage]], [[Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Chestnut Hill]], Philadelphia ({{Circa|1850}})
* Completion of East Wing, [[Old Patent Office Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (–1853)
* West Wing, [[Old Patent Office Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (1851–54, burned 1877)
* [[United States Capitol dome]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (1855–1866)
* Preliminary design for expansion of the [[Treasury Building (Washington, D.C.)|Treasury Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]] ({{Circa|1855}})
* Expansion of the [[General Post Office (Washington, D.C.)|General Post Office]], [[Washington, D.C.]] (1855–66)
* Marine Barracks, [[Pensacola, Florida]] (1857)
* Marine Barracks, [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]] (1858–59)<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Curl|first1=James Stevens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-KrCQAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture|last2=Wilson|first2=Susan|date=2015-02-26|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-105385-6|pages=822|language=en|archive-date=2022-05-21|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521102525/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-KrCQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ingleside (Washington, D.C.)|Ingleside]], Washington, D.C. ({{Circa|1850}})<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ingleside (Stoddard Baptist Home) - Originally designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, this house is an important example of his domestic design.|url=https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/297|access-date=2021-09-20|website=DC Historic Sites|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920213113/https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/297|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Garrett-Dunn House, 7048 Germantown Ave, [[Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Mt. Airy]], Philadelphia ({{Circa|1850}}, burned 2009)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Steinberg |first1=Henry |last2=Jaffe |first2=Alan |title=Garrett-Dunn House destroyed |url=https://whyy.org/articles/9525/ |website=whyy.org |publisher=WHYY |access-date=24 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Caparella|first=Kitty|date=3 August 2009|title=Garrett-Dunn House, a landmark in Mt. Airy, destroyed in fire|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090803_Garrett-Dunn_House__a_landmark_in_Mt__Airy__destroyed_in_fire.html|access-date=2021-09-20|website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920212803/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090803_Garrett-Dunn_House__a_landmark_in_Mt__Airy__destroyed_in_fire.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Fifth Presbyterian Church, 500 I Street N.W., Washington, D.C. (1852)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pressley Montes|first=Sue Anne|date=28 August 2007|title=Church's Face-Lift Plans Uncover Ties to U.S. Capitol Architect|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701764.html|archive-date=5 March 2016|access-date=20 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141451/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701764.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Thomas Ustick Walter House, [[Germantown, Philadelphia]] (1860–61, demolished {{Circa|1920}})<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harrison|first=Stephen G.|date=1992|title=Documenting a Design: The Thomas Ustick Walter House, 1861-1866, Germantown, Pennsylvania|url=https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/83e4b148-0128-4506-99e2-749cb7c6e6ee/content|journal=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=2024-12-23|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Eutaw Place Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland (1868–71)

==Personal life==
[[File:Thomas Ustick Walter & family c1850.jpg|thumb|Walter family with servant, circa 1850]]
He married Mary Ann Elizabeth Hancocks in 1824.<ref name=winterthur/> She died during childbirth in 1847. He was remarried to Amanda Gardiner in 1848.<ref name=KohlerCarson/> He had 13 children, seven of whom outlived him.{{sfn|Mason|1888|p=325}} His grandson, Thomas Ustick Walter III, was an architect who practiced in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], from the 1890s to the 1910s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fazio |first1=Michael W. |title=Landscape of Transformation: Architecture and Birmingham, Alabama |date=2010 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |isbn=9781572336872 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Landscape_of_Transformations.html?id=j0NIAQAAIAAJ |access-date=24 December 2024}}</ref>

==Legacy==
For his architectural accomplishments, Walter is honored in a ceiling mosaic in the East Mosaic Corridor at the entrance to the Main Reading Room of the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=John Y. |last2=Reed |first2=Henry Hope |title=Library of Congress - The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building |date=1997 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393045635 |page=103 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Library_Of_Congress/1P_bTHtdTwkC |access-date=23 December 2024}}</ref>

A historical marker highlighting the location of Walter's house in Philadelphia was erected in 2009 by the Philadelphia Historical and Museum Commission.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Ustick Walter (1804-1887) |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=108871 |website=www.hmdb.org |publisher=The Historical Marker Database |access-date=22 December 2024 |archive-date=18 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018234554/https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=108871 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery class="centered">
File:Moyamensing Prison.jpg|[[Moyamensing Prison]], [[Philadelphia]] (1832–35, demolished 1968)
File:Historic American Buildings Survey, Ned Goode, Photographer July, 1958 NORTH FACADE. - First Presbyterian Church, 130 West Miner Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA.jpg|One of Walter's first commissions, the [[First Presbyterian Church of West Chester|First Presbyterian Church]], [[West Chester, Pennsylvania]] (1832)
File:Chester County PA Jail T U Walter.jpg|Chester County Prison, West Chester (1838, demolished 1960)
File:St. George's Hall Philly.jpg|[[St. George Society of Philadelphia|St. George's Hall]] in Philadelphia
File:St. James Episcopal Church - Wilmington, North Carolina 01.jpg|[[St. James Episcopal Church (Wilmington, North Carolina)|St. James Episcopal Church]], [[Wilmington, North Carolina]] (1839–40)
File:Lexington, Virginia (8597852898) (2).jpg|[[Lexington Presbyterian Church]], [[Lexington, Virginia]] (1843–45)
File:Tabb Street Presbyterian Church, 21 West Tabb Street, Petersburg, Petersburg, VA HABS VA,27-PET,30-3.tif|[[Tabb Street Presbyterian Church]], [[Petersburg, Virginia]] (1843)
File:Chester County Courthouse PA 2015.jpg|[[Chester County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Chester County Courthouse]], West Chester (1846–47)
File:1st Baptist Bristol TU Walter.JPG|First Baptist Church, [[Bristol, Pennsylvania]] (1851)
File:Historic American Buildings Survey, PHOTOCOPY 1870'S. - Chester County Horticultural Hall, 225 North High Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA HABS PA,15-WCHES,4-4.tif|Horticultural Hall now [[Chester County History Center]], West Chester (1848)<ref name=Lukens>{{cite web |last1=Lukens |first1=Rob |title=Thomas U. who??? |url=https://www.dailylocal.com/2011/11/17/thomas-u-who/ |website=www.dailylocal.com |publisher=MediaNewsGroup |access-date=24 December 2024}}</ref>
</gallery>

==References==
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'''Citations'''
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'''Sources'''
* {{cite journal
  | last = Mason
  | first = George C., Jr.
  | title = Biographical Notice of Thomas Ustick Walter A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Late Member of the American Philosophical Society
  | journal = Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
  | volume = XXV
  | year = 1888
  | pages = 322-327
  | url = https://www.google.com/books/edition/Proceedings_American_Philosophical_Socie/OlcLAAAAIAAJ
  }}

==External links==
*[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/co_display.cfm/480837 Walter's drawings at the Atheneum of Philadelphia]

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[[Category:1804 births]]
[[Category:1887 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century American architects]]
[[Category:Architects from Philadelphia]]
[[Category:Architects of the United States Capitol]]
[[Category:American neoclassical architects]]
[[Category:American people of German descent]]
[[Category:Bucknell University alumni]]
[[Category:Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Institute of Architects]]
[[Category:Greek Revival architects]]
[[Category:Harvard Law School alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society]]
[[Category:Presidents of the American Institute of Architects]]