Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 144
ercolonial period the local amateur architect played an im-portant and seemly part, and did much, not to supersede theskilled mechanic, but to supplement him. The earliest examples of these local amateurs were Dr.John Kearsley, who designed Christ Church in Philadelphiain 1727, and Andrew Hamilton,… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING a Mr. Duff, the architect from Scotland, who came to thiscountry at the invitation of Governor Blanden to erect St.Johns College at Annapolis, and Peter Harrison, a pupil ofVanbrugh, who was imported in 1747 to design and super-intend the building of Kings chapel in…
Architecture, Domestic
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