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 207
ICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ing his country house, Andakisia, in 1834-1836. Biddle had been in his youth thefirst American to travel in Greece, and was deeply interested in the fine arts. Inhis magazine, the Po7t Folio, in 1814 had appeared an essay, On Architecture,by George Tucker, urging an… … Figure 142. Dexter house, Dexter, Michigan. 1840 to 1843 thenon, which, as executed with little change, Biddle greatly admired. Even this,however, lacked the lateral colonnades, which Latrobe considered impractical ina modern building. No such consideration restrained Biddle in remodelling…
