An architectural monograph devoted to a comparative study of a group of early American doorways, Part Two: Porches (1921)
Embury, Aymar, 1880-1966, Whitehead, Russell F. (Russell Fenimore), 1884-1954 · [Saint Paul, White Pine Bureau] · leaf 14
as if thepiazza did notexist, thereby dif-fering from thetreatment of thedoorway on a porch, a feature which is, to me at least, a proofthat the Colonial builders and architects feltthat the piazza was distinctly a part of outdoorsand not what we to-day regard it—as an openpart of the house. On the… … THE KING CAESARM.ASSACH ing the frontispieces within the porches seemedtherefore a matter of interior treatment, and itwill be found in most cases that the decorationcorresponds in scale and design to the interiorwork of the building rather than to other partsof the exterior. The various types of…
Doorways · Architecture, Colonial
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