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 5
s where thescale has beenpreserved is theCowles house atFarmington, andhere by droppingthe sill of the win-dows. This isvery unusual, theColonial architect evidently preferring to lose scale rather than tobreak the strong horizontal line of the secondstory sills. In contrast with early forms of… … THE WEBB HOUSE, WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT.This appears to be a porch superimposed on an old frontispiece. flat roofed porches as being of late development,although the earliest frontispieces were probabl>square headed. Likewise we find that circular orsegmental porches, such as those on page…
Doorways · Architecture, Colonial
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