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 105
utbuildings were connected with the main houseby lateral passages. With Mount Airy, 1758, appeared the Palladian scheme ofadvanced outbuildings connected with the house by curved passages, and this wasadopted also in Tryons Palace, 1767-1770, and in the enlargements of Mount Ver-non begun on the… … Mount Airy Mount Vernon Figure 53. Relation of outbuildings to the house THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by rooms and fronted by colonnades. Unlike those of the other houses, whichrose from the same grade as the house itself, his service wings were reduced to thebasement level to form terraces, above which…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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