Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 103
n to 1796 (figure 52), likewise had its par-lour in the centre of the garden-front, but the whole room projected in octagonalform—as illustrated in several designs in Robert Morriss Select Architecture(1759), which Jefferson owned—after the manner of a French salon. The academic striving for formal… … Figure 51. Plan from Palladio, Book IIplate 33 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY portance (figure 53). ft is sometimes difficult to determine absolute priority inthe adoption of a given scheme, since outbuildings and house are not necessarilycontemporary. The oldest building with a pair of offices…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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