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 7
inthis country isWyck, German-town, where theglazed doors areon a line or a lit-tle behind the lineof the back of thewall. It is there-fore easy to un-derstand the der-ivation of thismotive, but one fancies that the Colonialbuilders must have run into a sufficiently dif-ficult, practical problem… … THE WHEELER HOUSE, OXFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Simple circular-headed vestibule. The metal roof denotes earlv nineteenth century. it must have been very hard to make the junc-tions between the frame walls and the masonryfloors water-tight. 1 suppose that our Colonialancestors were not so fussy about a…
Doorways · Architecture, Colonial
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