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 196
tive design (fig-ure 131).^ It closely follows the Pal-ladian prototype, as shown in Leonisedition of his works (figure 132), withthe tall exterior dome and all four por-ticos. Failing* of selection by Wash-ington and the commissioners, the idea was later embodied by Jefferson in an un-executed… … Figure 134. Octagonal design ascribed toInigo Jones From William Kents Designs of Inigo Jones (1727) HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC drawings in 1803. The scheme was too purely formal in its balance to meetwith favor until ideals of abstract unity had become established through thestrengthening of…
