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 92
detached building. Elements of circulation received a development which, with the increased num-ber of rooms, for the first time made privacy possible. Henceforth, as in Europesince about 1640, the ideal was, by means of hallways, to make it unnecessary totraverse any room to reach another. Further… … Figure 44. Plan of Graeme Park, Horsham, Pennsylvania. John Kirk, 1721 to 1722 40), the John Vassall house, Cambridge, 1759, Cliveden, after 1763, the Chase house,Annapolis, 1765, and elsewhere, but it remained exceptional even in fine houses. In form the house of the eighteenth century, typically,…
