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 132
es of cut stone; at Gunston and Whitehall the 1 Arthur Gilman, Thomas Hancock, Atlantic Monthly, vol. II (1863), p. 701. 2 G. C. Mason, Jr., in American Architect, vol. 10 (1881), p. 83. 3 Memoirs of Eliza S. M. Quincy (1861), p. 91. I06 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY windows of the hall are distinguished… … Figure 77. Doorway from Westfield, MassachusettsIn the Metropolitan Museum by a cornice, or a frieze and cornice. The earliest case is in the east front of theRoyall house, as early as 1737 (figure 61). Later examples remained always some-what exceptional, as was the pedimented window, which first…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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