Incidental ArchitectWhile the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the 1790s and early 1800s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the citys own. When William and Anna Maria Thornton arrived in Washington, D. C., in 1794, the new nations capital was little more