Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 109
to a ridge, and the ridge was retained until the Revolutionin those houses in which the masses were relatively narrow, whether in an H planor a long rectangle. Even where the house was more nearly square there werecertain instances ot keeping the ridge, as Westover (figure 59) atter 1726 and… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE form with steep lower slopes, and tour visible upper slopes of less inclination, as atAmpthill, Chesterfield County, Virginia, about 1732; Shirley Place, Roxbury,Massachusetts, 1746; the Van Cortlandt house. Lower Yonkers, 1748; the JohnVassall (Longfellow) house,…
