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 179
E EARLY REPUBLIC house the entrances are at the ends of the front, in the Harrison Gray Otis houseon Mount ^ernon Street, Boston, 1800, and in theDavid Sears house, 1816, the dooris moved to the eastern side. Where the street ran north and south, or in any casewhen the lot was relatively narrow,… … ■-^ *^ ■ Figure 117. Study for the Government House, New York City. John McComb, 1789From the original drawing in the possession of the New York Historical Society The great majority of houses continued to have all the living-rooms on thesame floor with the entrance hall. A certain number had the…
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