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S. Dearborn received construction contract proposals and recommended that Joseph D. Emery receive the contract for furnishing the building materials. Dearborn also suggested to Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush that Parris be retained to superintend the construction. 43 no blueprint for the new nation The Engagement of the Corps of Engineers on Marine Hospital Projects Although the federal government commissioned several dozen federal buildings during the early decades of the nineteenth century, the management of a national building program was not universally recognized as an objective of the federal government.
22 Because of Mills’s role in the Treasury Department, his frequent assignment on matters associated with federal buildings, and his title of “Architect of Public Buildings” starting in 1836, Mills is often referred to as the first in the line of supervising architects. He reinforced this notion in March 1843 when he presented himself to Secretary of the Treasury John C. ”23 In his response to Secretary Woodbury about Young’s proposed trip, Mills regarded the possibility of European travel at government expense as of benefit primarily to the architect rather than to the government.
S. custom house, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1833–1836, Robert Mills. Courtesy National Archives. 26 architects to the nation built to circumvent the charges of private hospitals and doctors, whose fees varied greatly. Given the demands upon the marine hospital fund, it is not surprising that the marine hospital was an early federal building type and that the first such hospital should be located in Boston, one of the nation’s great seaport cities. In May 1802, Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin wrote to the customs collector Benjamin Lincoln, reporting that Congress had appropriated $15,000 for a marine hospital in Massachusetts.