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Whitehall (1764), Anne Arundel County
Maryland State House (1772), Annapolis
Second St. Anne's Church (designed 1775, completed 1792), Annapolis
Joseph Horatio Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Died | before 1778 |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Buildings | Maryland State House |
Joseph Horatio Anderson was a British-born Colonial American architect active in Annapolis, Province of Maryland, in the late 18th century.
He designed Whitehall (1764), a plantation house in Anne Arundel County, outside Annapolis. He was the likely designer of the third (and current) Maryland State House (1772). [1] [2] He designed the second St. Anne's Church (designed 1775, completed 1792), [1] also in Annapolis, although the church was not completed until more than a decade after his death.
Quite few details are known of Anderson's life. [3]
Though Anderson boasted he was "regularly bread to those Sciences architectural design and construction & the only one upon the Continant[ sic ]," his octagonal design for the dome of the Maryland State House was found to be "contrary to all rules of architecture," and later replaced. [4]
In 1770, Anderson sent a letter to Rhode Island College offering his architectural services to the newly established institution. The correspondence, however, arrived only after construction on the college's new building had already begun. [5]
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