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 119
Rosewell the pavilions, front and rear, are masses deep enough to affect the spaces ofthe interior, but a glance at the plan reveals that they were adopted for plastic exterioreffect. This is obviously the case with the shallow central pavilions which appearedfrequently after 1750: for instance, in… … From a photograph by H. P. Cool: Figure 65. Rosewell, Gloucester County, Virginia. Before 1730 Greater academic splendor was obtained by the adornment of walls and pa-vilions by an order. But two instances occur of an order embracing two storiesabove a story treated as a high architectural…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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