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 200
C ARCHITECTURE forerunner of the Poplar Forest scheme, of a casino in circular torm: a round centralroom with a colonnade encircling it part-way, the remaining segments havingtwo elliptical rooms inscribed in them.^ McComb devised a scheme closely simi-lar.- Latrobe designed for the British… … Figure 138. Arlington, Alexandria County, Virginia such was erected, the Enoch Robinson house at Spring Hill, Somerville, Massachu-setts. On the lower floor were an oval parlor and a circular library; up-stairs thebedrooms opened on a central rotunda.* It was long after Jeffersons first suggestion…
