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 81
lly inremote parts of the Country, where little assistance in design is to be secureti,and in this his hopes were amply justified, as we shall see. Wares CompleteBody of Architecture (1756) was filled with model designs showing the applica-tion of academic elements. Such great folios of magnificent… … Figure 34. Hancock house, Boston. 1737 to 1740Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE fold in accessibility and relevance by the less ambitious publications of men de-voting themselves specifically to supplying builders and owners with…
