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 97
he type of plan with a transverse hall containing the stairs, and thatwith a hall the fore part of which is given special development. Influenced by thegeneral progression, the type with a hall expanded to one side tended to disappeartoward the close of the period, and the type with a broad… … Figure 48. Plan from Palladio, Book II, plate 41 resulted from an actual doubling of the original depth (figure 19), and in othersthe form is not substantially different—the hall relatively narrow with little atten-tion to its spatial effect. In some it is given a width more in proportion to…
