Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 141. Wilson house, Ann Arbor, Michigan. After 1836 from near at hand, no other house than Arlington could carry so well across theriver to the city, Washington, or so well hold its own at the other end of a com-position from the Capitol. The extreme step in the imitation of the temple, the adoption of a peristyleinstead of merely a prostyle arrangement, was taken by Nicholas Biddle in rebuild- 181 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ing his country house, Andalusia, in 1834-1836. Biddle had been in his youth thefirst
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . Figure 141. Wilson house, Ann Arbor, Michigan. After 1836 from near at hand, no other house than Arlington could carry so well across theriver to the city, Washington, or so well hold its own at the other end of a com-position from the Capitol. The extreme step in the imitation of the temple, the adoption of a peristyleinstead of merely a prostyle arrangement, was taken by Nicholas Biddle in rebuild- 181 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE ing his country house, Andalusia, in 1834-1836. Biddle had been in his youth thefirst American to travel in Greece,1 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 uncompromising imitation of Grecian the Bank of the United States, of which Biddle became a director in 1819and president in 1823, Latrobe had presented in 1818 a design based on the Par-. 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 hishouse, to which he added a wing toward the Delaware on the pattern of the The-seum, its cella flanked as well as fronted by columns (figure 139). It remained only to model a house on the Parthenon itself, with its front ofeight columns instead of six. This was done by James Coles Bruce at his planta- 1 W. N. Bates, Nicholas Biddles Journey to Greece in 1806, Proceedings of the Numismatic and Anti-quarian Society of Philadelphia, vol. 28 (1919), pp. 167-183. 2 Port Folio, , vol. 4 (1814), pp. 559-569. Cf. P. A. Bruce, History of the University of Virginia, vol. 182 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC tion, Berry Hill, in Halifax County, Virginia, in the years following 1835 (figure140). Mr. Bruce spe
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