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 112
e to a ridge, and the ridge was retained until the Revolutionin those houses in which the masses were relatively narrow, whether in an H planor a long rectangle. Even where the house was more nearly square there werecertain instances of keeping the ridge, as Westover (figure 59) after 1726 and… … o AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE form with steep lower slopes, and tour visible upper slopes of less inclination, as atAmpthill, Chesterfield County, Virginia, about 1732; Shirley Place, Roxbury,Massachusetts, 1746; the Van Cortlandt house, Lower Yonkers, 1748; the JohnVassall (Longfellow) house,…
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