Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 204
CAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ing his country house, Andalusia, in 1834-1836. Biddle had been in his youth thefirst x^merican to travel in Greece,^ and was deeply interested in the fine arts. Inhis magazine, the Port Folio, in 1814 had appeared an essay, On Architecture,by George Tucker, urging an… … Figure 142. Dexter house, Dexter, Michigan. 1S40 to 1843 thenon, which, as executed with little change, Biddle greatly admired. Even this,however, lacked the lateral colonnades, which Latrobe considered impractical ina mociern building. No such consideration restrained Biddle in remodelling…
