Joseph Horatio Anderson was a British-born Colonial American architect active in

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, in the late 18th century. He designed

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(1764), a plantation house in

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, outside Annapolis. He was the likely designer of the third (and current)

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(1772). He designed the second St. Anne's Church (designed 1775, completed 1792), 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. Though Anderson boasted he was "regularly bread to those Sciences architectural design and construction & the only one upon the ," his octagonal design for the dome of the

was found to be "contrary to all rules of architecture," and later replaced. 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.

Gallery

File:Whitehall MD1.jpg,

(1764), Anne Arundel County File:Maryland State House from College Ave.JPG,

(1772), Annapolis File:View of Annapolis, Maryland.jpg, Second St. Anne's Church (designed 1775, completed 1792), Annapolis

References

External links

Historical Images of the Maryland State House, Maryland State Archives
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