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 241
was unusual after 1793, although in a few doorways, such as thatof Montpellier, remodelled in that year, a pediment was made thus to span one ofthe new elliptical fanlights (figure 186). Even in other relationships a pediment 218 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC on the door-casing soon became rare.… … Figure 179. Doorway of the Gore houseCourtesy of Miss N. D. Tupper the period ot Franklin Crescent and Sansoms buildings; and, under a portico, onnot a few country houses such as Homewood and Upsala, both begun in 1798. Onthe other hand, it was not uncommon, even without a portico, for a triple…
