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 259
l was kept of regular form, whether steps sur-rounded it on all sides or landings intervened. ^ Griswold, The Republican Court (1856), p. 262.236 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC A staircase itself semicircular, without any straight portion, and with a semi-circular well, was used by Bulfinch in the… … Figure 197. Crafts house, Roxbury. Plan. Peter Banner, 1805From a measured drawing by Ogden Codman house (1805), the Wickham house in Richmond (1812), and others. Both schemesare taken over from Bulfinch in 1806 in Benjamins American Builders Com-panion. An elliptical well, wholly or part-way…
