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 215
y 1721 it had filtered down into the popular hand-books. In Godfrey Richardss version of The First Book of Architecture ofAndrea Palladio, Chapter L discourses Of Flat Roofs, and a figure shows theconstruction, which, with the coverings then available, involved a slope of sometwenty degrees,… … T3 oU J3 C/3 S c O • o M 00 C „ 2 ^ — 3CO to -a S c to -to .5 3 O CO c> W -ac c O 3 ^,..,,„» I ^i-). AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE of architects and laymen in the early republic. Cooper has expressed and satirizedthis feeling in The Pioneers (1822)/ in describing the mansion of MarmadukeTemple,…
