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John Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 (1884), p. 1052.
Talbot Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955), p. 318.
No doubt both references are with regard to the "Seat of Miers Fisher." It is the opinion of this author that a working watercolor drawing Latrobe (may have) used in preparation of the work Latrobe put on exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1812 is within the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive at the Library of Congress. The drawing at the Library of Congress, however, is simply labeled 'Architectural drawing of a Country House' and noted as 'Probably Long Branch, the Robert Carter Burnwell house, Clarke County, Va.' Again, it is the opinion of this author that the naming of this drawing needs to be correctly changed to 'Ury House, the seat of Miers Fisher.'
www.loc.gov/item/95860807:
The primary proof that the 'Architectural drawing of a Country House' is actually 'Ury House, the seat of Miers Fisher' is the August 17, 1824 Charles Wilson Peale sketch of 'Miers Fisher's Place.'
And the fact that there exists no other documentation (so far) linking Latrobe and Ury House may be thanks to John Barber:
Talbot Hamlin, Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1955), p. 135.
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