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 85
wledge un the part ot thecraftsmen—for they had constantly to assimilate new gospel from London—thanto the admirable designs and details in books, consistent in style and clear in pres-entation, available tor selection and adaptation. The dependence on books tended to give the leading houses a… … more subject to local influences, materials, and traditions, so that among themsharply distinguished local types grew up, like those representative of German-town or of the Connecticut ^^alley. Characteristics personal to individual de-signers are more difficult to trace, lor artistic personalities…
