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Thomas Ustick Walter
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Short Name: Thomas Ustick Walter
Full Name: Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887
Birth Year: 1804
Death Year: 1887

Walter, Thomas U, author of "Desponding soul! O, cease thy woe" (Power of Faith), which appeared in the American Baptist Harp, 1849, and later collections, was b. in Philadelphia, Penn., Sep. 4, 1804, and d. there Oct. 30, 1887. He was an architect by profession.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Thomas Ustick Walter (September 4, 1804 – October 30, 1887) was an American architect of German descent, the dean of American architecture between the 1820 death of Benjamin Latrobe and the emergence of H.H. Richardson in the 1870s. He was the fourth Architect of the Capitol and responsible for adding the north (Senate) and south (House) wings and the central dome that is predominantly the current appearance of the U.S. Capitol building. Walter was one of the founders and second president of the American Institute of Architects. In 1839, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.

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