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 234
went a sub-tle yet significant change. In Colonial times it had always been in the form of aclassic architrave, occasionally projecting in front ot the wall but normally flush,between the jambs. Only a few were set back, revealing the masonry jamb, andthese were still relatively broad, with the… … Figure 172. Design for a city houseCharles Bulfinch, after 1796 From the original drawing in the possession ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC face of the wall. This type, long used in England with windows having a stonearchitrave, was retained there when there…
