not compete with him for the plans to design the new First Independent Church (Unitarians). Godefroy, however, blamed Latrobe for his inability to obtain further work in Baltimore. Godefroy left Baltimore in 1819 for England, his daughter dying of yellow fever before the ship had cleared Chesapeake Bay. He worked for a while in London, then moved on to France. Prior to his death in 1838/40?, he designed a new wing to the Palais de Justice and the Préfecture, both at Laval, Mayenne, France. Godefroy designed the famous iconic "Battle Monument" from the recent War of 1812, commemorating the casualties of soldiers and officers from the previous British military attack in the Battle of Baltimore, with the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Battle of North Point, and stand-off at the eastern city fortifications at Loudenschlager's Hill, now Hampstead Hill in Patterson Park, September 12-13-14, 1814, at the old former Baltimore County/Town Courthouse Square on North Calvert Street between East Lexington and East Fayette Streets - constructed 1815 to 1822, and the now landmark First Independent Church of Baltimore, later to become known as the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore (Unitarian and Universalist) at West Franklin and North Charles Streets - 1817. Selected works St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, Baltimore, Maryland (1806–08) St. Thomas Church, Bardstown, Kentucky (1813–16) Battle Monument, Baltimore, Maryland (1815–25) Merchants' Exchange Building (Baltimore, Maryland) (1816-1820, demolished 1904) First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland (1818) References External links St. Mary's Seminary and University 1765 births 1840 deaths French architects French emigrants to the United States Architects from Baltimore [[Category:19th-century American architects]