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 111
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY that of the McPhedris house in Portsmouth, surely before 1728 and probably fin-ished in 1722, which has a balustrade from chimney to chimney, along the curbsdividing the upper and lower slopes of its gambrel root (figure 56). One likewiseoccurs with the gambrel in the Hancock and… … Figure 61. Royall house, Medford. East front. Between 1733 and 1737 house (1759); with the hip-roof having a deck—its truly functional use—in Wood-ford (after 1756), Mount Pleasant (figure 39, after 1761), and Lansdowne (1773-1777) at Philadelphia, in the Orne House at Salem (1761), and in the…
