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 121
ARCHITECTURE and soon after, the order consists of pilasters, each with an individual fragment ofarchitrave and frieze, and perhaps also of pedestal. This was the way the orderswere generally figured in the popular handbooks, by a single column with entabla-ture and pedestal mitred back at either… … From a photographby Frank Cousins Figure 68. John Vassall (Longfellow) house, Cambridge. 1759 closely akin. It had the practical advantage of allowing more height for the win-dows of the upper story. This advantage was foregone in the central pavilion ofthe Pinckney house, however, as well as in…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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