Andalusia

Andalusia is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Bucks County, dedicated 2001.

Bucks County · dedicated 2001 · 1237 State Road, Andalusia (Bensalem Township)

Country estate of Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844), poet, lawyer, agriculturalist, state senator, and president of the Second Bank of the United States. Biddle's struggle with President Andrew Jackson over the Bank's financial control of the nation's monetary system was one of the most controversial issues of the era. Andalusia, designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe and Thomas U. Walter, shows the influence of both Regency and Greek Revival styles of architecture. Named a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

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