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 118
ARCHITECTURE and soon after, the order consists of pilasters, each with an individual fragment ofarchitrave and frieze, and perhaps also of pedestal. This was the way the orderswere generally figured in the popular handbooks, by a single column with entabla-ture and pedestal mitred back at either… … }->om a photo^raffhf-y Fant Cousins Figure 68. John Vassall (Longfellow) house, Cambridge. 1759 closely akin. It had the practical advantage of allowing more height tor the win-dows of the upper story. This advantage was foregone in the central pavilion ofthe Pinckney house, however, as well as…
