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 114
E EIGHTEENTH CENTURY that of the McPhedris house in Portsmouth, surely before 1728 and probably fin-ished in 1722, which has a balustrade from chimney to chimney, along the curbsdividing the upper and lower slopes of its gambrel roof (figure 56). One likewiseoccurs with the gambrel in the Hancock… … Figure 61. Royall house, Medford. East front. Between 1733 and 1737 house (1759); with the hip-roof having a deck—its truly functional use—in Wood-ford (after 1756), Mount Pleasant (figure 39, after 1761), and Lansdowne (1773-1777) at Philadelphia, in the Orne House at Salem (1761), and in the…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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