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 108
82 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY tween this and the Revolution—variations corresponding to wealth and preten-sions rather than to any steady evolution. At Carters Grove, 1751, the lowerrooms had a height of thirteen and a half feet, and at Monticello, 1771-1775, thevery exceptional height of eighteen… … From ti photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 56. McPhedris house, Portsmouth. Before 1728 the Miles Brewton house, 1765-1769, such a cove attained the height of seventeenfeet. Where there was a third story, this, as in England, was generally shorterthan those below. Only in the case of the Clark…
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