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 124
nds of the opening lay in themethod of giving light to the hall at this point. In early houses a rectangulartransom here was not uncommon: witness Graeme Park, Stenton, Rosewell, West-over, the Ayrault house at Newport, and the Daniel Pastorius house at German-town, all between 1721 and 1748. A… … Figure 74. Roger Morris (Jumel) house. New York City. 1765 and Apthorp houses in Cambridge. Meanwhile, in the arched door heads cominginto use after 1757, semicircular transoms or fanlights now first appeared, super-seding both the older forms. The elliptical arch of the Miles Brewton house alsohas…
