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 126
on the eve of the Revolution.There is but a single undoubtedly authentic example, itself late, of an ellipticalarched door head before the Revolution, that of the Miles Brewton house in Charles-ton, built 1765-1769.3 The familiar elliptical heads are otherwise entirely fromRepublican days. 1… … AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE The most significant difference within the bounds of the opening lay in themethod of giving light to the hall at this point. In early houses a rectangulartransom here was not uncommon: witness Graeme Park, Stenton, Rosewell, West-over, the Ayrault house at Newport,…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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