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 250
TECTURE practice was justified by Asher Benjamin in The Practical House Carpenter . . .being . . . the Grecian Orders of Architecture . . . fashioned according to the Styleand Practice of the Present Day (i8jo). He writes in the preface that the Doriccolumn was generally made, by the Greeks, about… … Figure i88. Smith house. Grass Lake, Michigan. 1840 our practice than the former one, especially when the orders are used in privatehouses. Benjamins Greek Doric was some six and three-quarter diameters high.Different periods had their preferences among the orders. Thus the protago-nists of the…
