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 110
MESTIC 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, 1759; and a… … Figure 60. Stenton, Germantown. 1728 the prominent English houses named above. This is the case at Stenton, 1728(figure 60). After 1750 the deck was almost universal in the better houses of rela-tively square mass, whatever their location: Woodford, Mount Pleasant, and Lans-downe at Philadelphia,…
