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 184
N DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a projecting saloon, occupying a place of honor in the centre ot a garden front,opposite the entrance. Created by Le Vau at Vaux-le-Vicomte under Louis XIV,the type, with an elliptical salon, was adopted almost universally in France in thestyle of Louis XV, and became the… … Oo«.<lriEJTej^,Kfcil. FiKiT FijDop^ Plan Figure 122. Swan house, Dorchester, MassachusettsFrom a measured drawing by Ogden Codman tecture Improved (1755) and Select Architecture (1759). Made classical byusing a circular room surrounded by columns and surmounted by a saucer dome,it was adopted by…
