I'coplr may ijo miclrr slifltrr every whcrt- al)»)iil this 

 House, which is one of the most consideiahle con- 

 seiiiences tliat oiii^ht to Ix- cl<'sii"cl in a Oountry- 

 hoiise." '" 



Meicer may have been impressed by this ar^^iiment 

 and by the arcade in tl»e desit»n. He was already 

 famihar with arcades at the capitol at Williamsbiirt; 

 and at tlu- C^ollege of Wilham and Mary, as well as 



"• Antonio Palladio, /A.- .l'i/i/if</i/-'^..y . I. yuiiMfi;.! . . . Hr- 

 tii'd, Dfsign'ii, and Puhlish'd By Giacomo Ltoni . . . Iht Third 

 Edition, Cormtfd . . . (London, 1742), p. til, p|. to. 



at oiitKiii|{ coiirthoii.srs where he | 

 courthouse at Staffjjrd prol>iilily inchiu . 1 

 case, he did not have ihc veranda built iinlil 1748 or 

 1749, after the main sfrnctiire had liccn coinpl' '• ' 

 It is sinnificant, ir) this regard, that it was not ■. '.i 

 .March 1748 that he sritird accoiinui with Sydrnhain 

 & Hodgson for the four architectural Ixmks (including 

 i'alladio). 



A formal garden apparently was laid « 

 nearly s<^|iiare, walled em !■ 

 It is perhaps wholly a !• 

 writing alx>ut the villa at Fanzolo. 

 the back of this Building there is a square Oaidcii. 



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